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Natalie Raybould
Natalie Raybould read music at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated with first class honours. She then attended the Royal Academy of Music to study with Joy Mammen and Clara Taylor, supported by Countess of Munster Trust and alumni funding, and graduated from Royal Academy Opera in 2002 with a Dip.RAM.
Natalie has been involved in many of the most exciting advances in English opera in recent years. She created the role of Female Narrator in the world première of Pinocchio (Tuckett/Ward) for ROH2 at The Royal Opera House, also shown on the BBC in January 2006. She created the role of Lover in the world première of Liebeslied/My Suicides (Clark/Blees Luxemberg/Duttman). In 2006/7 Natalie created and performed the role of Jen in the world première of The Girl Who Liked To Be Thrown Around (Michael Oliva) for madestrange Opera.
Operatic experience also includes Adele The Flying Fox (J. Strauss) for Tête à Tête, Nedda I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) for English Pocket Opera Company, Sofia Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini), Ermione Oreste (Handel) and Merione Telemaco (Gluck) for English Bach Festival, Serpina La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi) for New Chamber Opera, Cleopatra Giulio Cesare (Sartorio) for Opera Seicento and Player Girl Death In Venice (Britten) for Aldeburgh Festival/Bregenz Festival (June-Aug 2007).
Concert experience includes Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire, Shostakovich Symphony 14, Britten Les Illuminations, Tavener Akhmatova Songs, Handel Psalm 112, Shostakovich Seven Romances on Verses by Blok, Berio Sequenza, Ravel Trois Poëmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Donatoni Cinis, Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony, Elena Langer Ariadne, Elisabeth Lutyens Requiescat, and the world première of The Glory Tree (Cheryl Frances-Hoad). Natalie is a founding member of both The Kreisler Ensemble and Illegal Harmony.
In August 2008 Natalie performed You Must Have This, a work in progress show for SharpWire at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Natalie also again performed the role of Jen in The Girl Who Liked To Be Thrown Around (Michael Oliva) for madestrange Opera at the Grimeborn Festival (Aug 08).
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