Natalia Hurst

Nati Hurst: Singing, Sirens & Amazons.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, argentinean-german soprano Natalia Hurst is based in Vienna. She graduates with distinction from University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna at the class from Univ.Prof. Dr. Getraud Berka Schmid, arising with versatility and irreverence by her lively interpretations in comique-roles as „Lucy“ (Menottis „The Telephone“) or „Despina“ (Mozart´s „Così fan tutte“).
Her album debut "Lieder der Unterwelt" („Underworld songs“), where she features songs by Kurt Weill, Hugo Wolf and Arnold Schönberg is already available at Apple Music.
She premiered last August „Pane Quotidiano, Amore Veneziano“ together with soprano Marika Rainer, a delicious staged version of chamber pièces for two voices from Gioacchino Rossini, Claudio Monteverdi and Hugo Wolf and Reynaldo Hahn´s songs with Commedia dell´ Arte flair, at the VIennese Summer Festival 2020. Natalia´s open perspective abilities lead her to stage her own projects, recently winning an Artist Scolarship to develope her initiative „Opera Triptychon: A Quarantine Story“: an interdisciplinary performance combining art visuals, choreography and bel canto, approaching opera scenes to nowadays context and women rights, to be performed on next 25 November 2020.

During the Covid-19 Lockdown Period she engaged herself at her „VoiceLab for Quaran-times“ offering remote-online voice lessons, oriented to grow a positive body-active attitude through singing at that isolated moment, reaching new students in Argentina, Uruguay and Austria.

Her vocal repertoire includes sacred music as Mozart´s „Exsultate Jubilate“ as also Arnold Schönberg ´s Brettl Lieder -Cabaret Songs-.. She participated with great success at the Young Professionals Programme at Munich EUROVOX 2012, delighting audiences also at Mozart Gala Concert with the Athens Symphony Orchestra in Greece under Mtro Andreas Tselikas, at Gläserner Saal in Wiener Musikverein and Piazza San Marco at Venice Carnival. She has been invited to impersonate the leading role in the world premiere of the modern opera "La Donna" by G. Pedini in Umbria (2005), and the „Second Lady“ and a „Boy“ in "The Magic Flute 06" by Th. Pernes, Neue Oper Wien´s world première. With the Madrigal Choir´s in original instruments concert version of H. Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas"; she sang Belinda and Second Woman in Wien. She was also heard as „Donna Anna“ in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in the course of the project "Oper hautnah“. Natalia joined Magna Lirica Company in Buenos Aires 2016 to sing „Despina“, bringing chuckles and glitter as an old school troubadourin on stage, with an Avantgarde look into diversity.

She integrated international opera choruses under direction of distinguished conductors like Mariss Jansons, Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Marc Minkowski and Nikolaus Harnoncourt . Natalia enjoys to teach Voice at the Theresian Academy ́s Music Department in Vienna .

Her post-graduated studies included „Political genealogy and history of Tango“ at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), dictated by Prof. Gustavo Varela (2017) and also the International Webinar for classical musicians „BYOM-Be your own Manager“ dictated by Executive- Coach Bernhard Kerres (2020).

Since 2016 she also belong to diverse woman empowerment initiatives as a performer and activist; in order to spread, celebrate, debate and rethink the task of women in society, revaluing the feminine and its role in strengthening the social fabric .
Natalia loves to tend bridges between cultures through teaching, music and humor. Authenticity, warmth hearth and the spell of singing warrant in each of her appearances a powerful soul-food delivery

*Last Update August 2020