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Kukhar Nataliia

1991

Young Ukrainian opera singer - colouratura mezzo-soprano. She has been a guest soloist at Opera Krakowska, Teatr Wielki - the National Opera of Poland, and Polska Opera Królewska (Warsaw).

Since the 2021/2022 season, she has been a member of the international opera studio OperAvenir at the Basel Theatre. Since 2018, Natalia has been a participant of the Opera Academy training programme for young talents at the National Opera of Poland in Warsaw (mentor: Olga Pasichnyk). She has worked with such masters of opera as Mariusz Kwiecien, Izabela Klosinska, Tomasz Konechny, Thomas Lausman, René Massis, Lech Napierala, Eitan Pessen, Matthias Rexroth, Hedwig Fassbender, and Eva Zeiner.

She participated in masterclasses by Monserrat Caballé (Spain), Olha Pasichnyk (Ukraine-Poland), Richard Resch (Austria), and Ursula Schongals (Germany).

She has toured Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Switzerland.

In August 2020, she made her debut at the Ancient Music Festival in Innsbruck (Austria) in the opera The Punished Wicked by Alessandro Melani, in the role of Cloridoro.

In March 2020, she performed at the Polska Opera Królewska (Warsaw) as Eduide in Handel's Rodelinda (conducted by Krzysztof Garstka, directed by Andrzej Klimczak).

In January 2020, she made her debut at the Teatr Wielki - the National Opera of Poland as Sister in Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel (conducted by Kazushi Ono, directed by Mariusz Treliński).

In November 2019, she sang the role of Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Opera Krakowska (conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk, directed by Jerzy Stur).

In August 2019, she was a member of the Exzellenz-Labor Gesang/Oper Opera Laboratory (Weickersheim, Germany). She has worked with Hedwisch Fassbender (vocal technique and German repertoire), René Massis (French repertoire), Fausto Nardi (Baroque, Mozart), Francesco Massimi (bel canto).

Since 2020, he has been collaborating with the Ancient Instrument Chapel of the Polska Opera Królewska Regia Polonia under the direction of Krzysztof Garstka. In December 2020, she took part in the recording of the New Year's Eve concert with the Symphony Orchestra of the National Opera of Poland under the direction of Patrick Furnilier. In September 2020, she performed with the Baroque Collegium 1685 Orchestra under the direction of Agnieszka Żarska. In May 2019, she made her debut with the National Polish Radio Orchestra under the baton of Michał Klauza.

In January 2017, she made her debut at the Palau de la Musica Catalana with the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

From February to July 2018, she was a scholarship holder of the Gaude Polonia programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. Since 2019, she has been receiving grant support from the VERE MUSIC FUND.

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