Natalie Pérez

French Mezzo-soprano Natalie Pérez studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She was then a member of Opera Fuoco’s academy (David Stern), as well as the Jardin des Voix of Les Arts Florissants (William Christie) and the Academy of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2019, she won First Prize for women in the Opera category and the jury’s prize for French Song at the International Opera Singing Competition of Marmande. Passionate about song repertoire, Pérez made her debut at the Wigmore Hall in September 2019 as part of a young artist program, led by Dame Felicity Lott and François Le Roux.

Her notable engagements include a Lied recital with pianist Daniel Heide at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona in 2021; the role of Venus in José de Nebra’s Vendado es Amor, no es Ciego performed at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and recorded for Spanish TV, with Antonio María Rouco Varela and Los Elementos; Messaggiera in Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Versailles Royal Opera and Victoria Hall in Geneva with Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and I Gemelli; Anna I in Kurt Weill/Berthold Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins w ith Jacques Osinski and Benjamin Lévy at Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet and Opéra de Rouen Normandie; Amore and Valetto in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with Toro and I Gemelli at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; and Dorabella in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Nuno Coelho and The Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon.

Her discography includes several recordings with I Gemelli and Toro, three Spanish operas by de Nebra with Los Elementos and Rouco, and more than eighty songs as part of a Beethoven box set with Jean-Pierre Armengaud.

Picture: Capucine de Chocqueuse