NATALIE DAVIES
mezzo-soprano
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Natalie Davies was awarded the 2018 Basil A Turner Prize for her performance as Hermia in the European premiere of Jeremy Sams’ The Enchanted Island with British Youth Opera. She was a scholar at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
In 2022 she joined the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus and covered Second Bridesmaid in Le Nozze di Figaro with Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 2023 she looks forward to performing with the chorus of English National Opera in Carmen, and returning to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera chorus and covering Soeur Mathilde in Les Dialogues des Carmélites.
In 2021 Natalie played the Queen of the Fairies with Charles Court Opera for their UK tour of 'Iolanthe', also recording the role. She then joined the chorus of English National Opera for their productions of Satyagraha and HMS Pinafore.
Other operatic work includes Tisbe in Rossini’s La Cenerentola for British Youth Opera, Gold Tressed Maiden in Maxwell-Davies’ The Hogboon for the London Symphony Orchestra and Fag Hag in Salorian’s immersive opera Boys of Paradise for the Tête à Tête Festival.
Other performance highlights include Mozart’s Requiem at Snape Maltings, a performance of new song at Wigmore Hall, a live performance on BBC Radio 3 and the finals of the 2019 Isobel Buchanan Award.
Natalie is an experienced singing teacher, and alongside her private teaching practice she is a Visiting Music Teacher at two secondary schools in London.