BIOG of a Soprano Opera Singer

London born Anglo-Indian soprano Natasha Jouhl studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (where she won the prestigious Gold Medal) and at the National Opera Studio. 

The recipient of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera John Christie Award, and Glyndebourne on Tour Promise Award, Natasha has forged a close relationship with the company having performed many roles including the title role in Rusalka and First Wood Nymph, Donna Anna Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Musetta La Bohème, Micaëla Carmen, Violetta La Traviata, and has covered Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, Mélisande Pelléas et Mélisande, Alice Ford Falstaff, and the title roles in Rusalka and Rodelinda (GFO/GOT).  Further roles in the UK include Elisetta The Secret Marriage, Ilia Idomeneo, First Wood Nymph Rusalka, and Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte (Opera North), Donna Anna Don Giovanni and Tamiri Il Re Pastore (Garsington Opera), Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte (Opera Holland Park), Emma Khovanshchina (WNO), the title role in Alcina (English Touring Opera), Donna Anna in Graham Vick’s production of Don Giovanni (Birmingham Opera Company), and Micaëla Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall (Raymond Gubbay).   

Further afield she has performed Kumadha in John Adam’s The Flowering Tree for Chicago Opera Theater, Micaëla Carmen for Royal Danish Opera, Donna Anna Don Giovanni at the Birgitta Festival, Tallinn, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus for Wexford Festival Opera, Bernadette in the world première of Andrew Schultz’s Going into Shadows in Brisbane, Australia, Angelica Orlando and Romilda Xerxes for Opera Theatre Company, Dublin, and Nella in Gianni Schicchi for the William Walton Foundation in Ischia.  Other roles include Tatyana Eugene Onegin, Lia in Debussy’s L’enfant Prodigue, and the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snowmaiden. 

On the concert platform oratorio highlights have included Bach’s B Minor Mass and Haydn’s Creation at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, the St. Matthew Passion in Chelmsford Cathedral, Handel’s Samson, Acis and Galatea and Messiah at Arundel Cathedral, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra, Carmina Burana with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pergolesi’s Missa Romana with the Orchestre National de Lyon, both Fauré and Dvorak Requiem at Cadogan Hall, and Il tempo del postino at the Manchester International Festival. In July 2021,Helmwige in Die Walkure at St. John’s, Waterloo. 

Other engagements include Violetta La Traviata for Glyndebourne on Tour, also returning to Glyndebourne Festival for Donna Anna Don Giovanni, Mia in the world première of Eric Sweeney’s The Invader for Wexford Opera House and the Theatre Royal Waterford, the title role in Rusalka for Lyric Opera Dublin, covers Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall for Raymond Gubbay, and understudy of Beatrice in Thomas Ades’s The Exterminating Angel at the ROH. On the concert platform she performed in Carols by Candlelight with the Mozart Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall and Beethoven’s 9th at the Barbican.  Other engagements have included Ines in Il Trovatore and Oxsana in Rimsky Korsakov’s Christmas Eve for Chelsea Opera Group, a Classics Spectacular for Gubbay at Bridgewater Hall, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and the understudy of Rusalka for Glyndebourne 2019 season. 

At Grimeborne for the Arcola, Natasha performed Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia in 2019 and Sieglinde in Die Walkure for Arcola at Hackney Empire in 2021.