NATALIE BERGERON

Soprano Natalie Bergeron is a recent winner in the Liederkranz Wagner Division, which includes a debut at Carnegie Hall in Weill auditorium. In the 2011-2012 season she can be seen in as Maddalena opposite Marcello Giordani as Andrea Chenier with the Orchestra Toscanini of Milan as well as numerous concerts in New York, Memphis and her hometown of Birmingham. She was recently accepted into the Evelyn Lear/Thomas Stewart Emerging Wagnerian Artists Program in Washington D.C. as well as creating the role of Blanche Germont in the Premiere of Dodici Personaggi in Cerca di Voce by the renowned Maestro from La Scala: Bruno Rigacci. The Jerusalem Post says of her performances in Don Carlo, Ernani, and La Forza del Destino in Tel Aviv “the IOW workshop is an incubator for opera greats, and Natalie Bergeron boasts a big beautiful voice…which she uses to inspiring affect.” She recently had the pleasure of performing Ines while covering Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore in her Opera Memphis main stage debut, and has performed a variety of roles including Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rosalinda in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring, the Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Sylvianne in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, and with Opera Birmingham the role of Giovanna in Verdi’s Rigoletto. She has performed as a guest artist with such organizations as the Alabama Symphony with the Birmingham Concert Chorale, The Huxford Symphony, The Tuscaloosa Symphony, The Beethoven Club of Memphis, and in Tel Aviv with the Israel Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Paul Nadler.

 

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