Natalia Santaliz

Puerto Rican soprano Natalia Santaliz will take on the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Berkshire Opera Festival in the summer of 2022. Other highlights of the 2021-22 season include covering Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) and Maria (West Side Story) with Opera San José;  soprano soloist for the Fauré Requiem with Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico; and singing the role of Chica in Navarro’s comic opera ¿Y los pasteles? at the Teatro de la Ópera.

During the 2020-21 season, she sang Nella and covered Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi under Kent Nagano at the Festival Napa Valley; performed with Álea 21 for the Para que el sueño viva concert as part of the IX Festival Flores & Balas featuring music of Rafael Aponte Ledée, Luciano Berio, Manuel J. Ceide, Wilma Alba Cal & William Ortiz and produced by the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico; took part in a holiday concert for Día de Reyes, as part of the Epiphany season, in conjunction with Teatro de la Ópera, Puerto Rico; performed on a tribute concert to Antonio Barasorda (1945-2018) at the Antonio Paoli Festival Hall of the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré; perform in an online concert series Música Abierta with Pro Arte Musical, Inc. whose mission is to teach children and special communities in Puerto Rico about music; and joined forces with bassoonist Francisco Joubert to film a performance of Joaquín Turina’s Vocalizaciones, Op.74 for a project about an artist’s life in a pandemic based on the experience of Edvard Munch when he was struck with the Spanish Flu of 1918. She was also scheduled as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with Eugene Symphony conducted by Francesco Lecce-Chong and to sing Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica with Ópera de Puerto Rico before the pandemic forced their cancellations.

During the 2018-19 season she performed the role of Camila in Frenesí by Johanny Navarro at the Teatro Bertita y Guillermo L. Martinez in Puerto Rico, was the soprano soloist in John Rutter’s Requiem with the Puerto Rico Symphony under the direction of Rafael Enrique Irizarry, and sang on the program The Blue Project: Puerto Rican Folk Music presented by New World Symphony.

Previously, she was a member of the Martina Arroyo Foundation’s “Prelude to Performance” where she covered the role of Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff and sang on a masterclass for Metropolitan Opera soprano Sharon Sweet. In 2017 she participated in the Sherrill Milnes Voice Studio as part of the Savannah Voice Festival in Georgia. She has been a guest artist with Ópera de Puerto Rico, Teatro de la Ópera, Fundación Puertorriqueña de Zarzuela y Opereta, Taller del Opera del Conservatorio de Música, and Teatro Lírico del Oeste.  Additional roles include Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Mařenka in The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana. Ms. Santaliz has been presented in recital at Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico en Miramar.

She began her training at the Escuela Libre de Música Ernesto Ramos Antonini of Mayagüez before graduating with honors from the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico and ultimately receiving her master’s degree from Mannes School of Music. Her voice teachers have included Ilca López and Beth Roberts. She is the recipient of the 2016 Roberto I. Ferdman Award.

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