Natasha Marsh was born in Brecon, Wales and began singing with April Cantelo in Oxfordshire. She spent four years with the National Youth Music Theatre and later studied at Birmingham University where she gained a First class honours degree in music and drama. She was awarded a Barber Scholarship and gained a scholarship to study Opera at the Royal College of Music.
Natasha has performed with numerous opera companies throughout the UK. Appearances include Micaëla (Carmen) and Olga (Fedora) with Opera Holland Park, First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Micaëla (Carmen) for Raymond Gubbay Ltd at the Royal Albert Hall, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) with English Touring Opera. With Opera North Natasha has performed Polisenna (Radamisto) and Ilia in Tim Albery’s production of Idomeneo conducted by David Parry.
Natasha Marsh made her debut with Grange Park Opera singing Jacqueline in Fortunio by André Messager. She has since returned to Grange Park to sing the roles of Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, both with much critical success. Natasha won the ‘M.O.C.S.A. Young Welsh Singer of the Year 1999’, and created the title role in Michael Berkeley’s new opera Jane Eyre with great success for Music Theatre Wales.
Natasha’s European appearances include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) in a production with Opera Zuid directed by Stephen Lawless and conducted by Peter Robinson, performances of Une Education Manquée by Chabrier for Les Azuriales Opera, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Teatro Calderón, Valladolid.
Natasha has also appeared in festivals both in the UK and abroad; performances include Acis in Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus at the Birmingham Early Music Festival , Polly in the Threepenny Opera at the Barber Concert Hall, Belinda (Dido & Aeneas) and Vespina (L’Infedelta delusa) at the Snape Maltings and and Polissena (Radamisto), Adelaide (Lotario) and Flavia in Silla (recorded by Hyperion) at the London Handel Festival.
Natasha’s oratorio work includes Tippett’s A Child of our Time under David Hill, Bach’s B Minor Mass under Nicholas Kraemer, the Messiah at the Arlosen Festival, the Mozart Requiem with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Silete Venti with the London Handel Festival Orchestra at Windsor Castle. Natasha has performed the Mozart Requiem and Exsultate Jubilate with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in Spain along with making her Proms debut as Israelite Woman in Handel’s Samson.
Her recent concert engagements include performances at The Barbican, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall with José Carreras and the Classical Brits 2007. Future concerts include performances with the RPO, CBSO and Manchester Camerata. She works regularly with the Royal Opera House Opera Genesis programme.
Natasha is an exclusive recording artist for EMI Classics. Her debut album ‘Amour’, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, debuted at number 1 in the Classical Album Charts in Feburary 2007.
“Natasha Marsh confirms her star potential…a Felicity Lott in the making.” (Sunday Times).
“Natasha Marsh breathed enough night-sweat into the phrase ‘he could see how well I do his bidding’ to steam up the theatre. Hers is a wonderful performance of gradual unhinging, sung and phrased with levels of suggestion rarely heard…” (The Times).
