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August 16 & 17 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Natalie Lewis In the summer of 2022, Lewis debuted the role of

Mezzo-Soprano/Third Lady Mistress Quickly in Falstaff with Bryn Terfel at the
Aspen Music Festival, where she worked with Renée
Fleming and Maestro Patrick Summers.
Wielding a “velvet mezzo-soprano sonic cushion”
(San Diego Story) and “sly lyricism” (Opera News), During her studies as a proud Kovner Fellow at The
Natalie Lewis is a captivating presence on the rise. Juilliard School, where she received her Master of
Music degree in Vocal Arts, Lewis performed in Suor
Lewis makes her European debut with the Bayerische Angelica (La Zia Principessa) and Gianni Schicchi
Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin as a winner (Zita); and she covered in Atalanta (Irene), Die lustigen
of the Opera Foundation scholarship competition. Weiber von Windsor (Frau Reich) and The Rake’s
In Berlin she joins the cast of Il trittico: Il tabarro Progress (Baba the Turk).
(La Frugola), Suor Angelica (La Zelatrice), and Gianni
Schicchi (Zita). In Munich, she sings in Madama Lewis was a winner of the 2023 Metropolitan
Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton), Pique Dame (Governess), Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition;
Suor Angelica (Alms Sister and Lay Sister), the first-place winner of the 2023 Houston
Parsifal (Blumenmädchen), Respighi’s Lucrezia Grand Opera Concert of Arias Competition; and
(La voce), Elektra (Die Vertraute), and La fanciulla winner of the Director’s Award in the James Toland
del West (Wowkle). Vocal Competition.
Of her 2023 debut with Merola Opera in the title role www.imgartists.com/roster/natalie-lewis/
of The Rape of Lucretia, the San Francisco Classical
Voice writes, “Natalie Lewis was a regal Lucretia, her
tone rich and her technique seemingly effortless.”

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