Natalia Usmanova
- Actress
Natalia Usmanova was educated as a singer/opera, musical/ and an
actress from The Gnesins Academy of Music in Moscow. She is a versatile
artist with a wide repertoire from operas, operettas and classical
romances to musical and jazz. In Moscow Natalia started her career at
the Boris A.Pokrovsky's Chamber Opera Theater as a professional singer
and also as an actress with Mosfilm Studios. Earlier she used to work
as a professional dancer at the Igor Moiseev's Ensemble... Natalia
continued her opera education at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and
was engaged as a soloist by the Hungarian State Opera and Erkel Theatre
in Budapest. She had been developing her vocal technique at the Opera
Master Classes with Magada Olivero/La Scala and professor opera singer
from Stockholm Kerstin Meyer in Mozarteum Academy/ Salzburg. Later
Natalia Usmanova won a scholarship to study at the AMDA - the American
Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and took a second prize at the
Show-Jazz Competitionin in Washington DC.
In 1993 Natalia Usmanova appeared at the Jazz Festival in Copenhagen and 1994 -Water Festival in Stockholm. In 1995 she started to work with the Tivoly Festival Agency in Copenhagen by singing solo parts in different productions in Denmark, Sweden and London: Concert versions of "Porgy and Bess" with Southern Jutland's Symphony Orchestra, "La Traviata", " The Man of La Mancha" with Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark also with Grupo Operistico in Madrid. Natalia had a contract with Callisto Management in Italy and now works the Opera Vox in Stockholm. Her latest roles are Papagena "The Magic Flute" by Mozart 2008, Magda in Puccini's "La Rondine"- 2010 and Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni" 2011.
In 1993 Natalia Usmanova appeared at the Jazz Festival in Copenhagen and 1994 -Water Festival in Stockholm. In 1995 she started to work with the Tivoly Festival Agency in Copenhagen by singing solo parts in different productions in Denmark, Sweden and London: Concert versions of "Porgy and Bess" with Southern Jutland's Symphony Orchestra, "La Traviata", " The Man of La Mancha" with Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark also with Grupo Operistico in Madrid. Natalia had a contract with Callisto Management in Italy and now works the Opera Vox in Stockholm. Her latest roles are Papagena "The Magic Flute" by Mozart 2008, Magda in Puccini's "La Rondine"- 2010 and Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni" 2011.