Natalie Arduino
Mezzo-Soprano
Natalie Arduino, mezzo-soprano, has received critical acclaim in opera, concert and early music performances for her versatility, vitality and her “beautiful, clear voice and musical sensitivity.” Ms. Arduino, an alumna of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, has appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Hawaii Chamber Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Ohio Light Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and New Jersey State Opera. Her Carnegie Hall debut was with the Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra as alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah. She has sung with the Little Orchestra Society in its “Vivaldi’s Venice” series at Alice Tully Hall and as the Mother in their production of Amahl and the Night Visitors in Avery Fisher Hall. She has appeared with many other orchestras, festivals and opera companies including the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. Ms. Arduino, a member of the internationally acclaimed vocal quartet Ramo de Flores, is a winner of the American Opera Society of Chicago competition and a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation. She received her Bachelor of Music degree with honors from Southern Methodist University and her Master of Music from the Mannes College of Music in New York.