The Russian soprano, Natalia Pavlova (Alexander Pushkin’s descendant), is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (Vocals Department, Professor K.G. Kadinskaya’s class) (2003-2011) and Russian Academy of Treatre Arts in class of theater director, screenwriter Roman Viktyuk. She took private lessons with Professor G.M. Troyanova of the Salzburg Mozarteum, and with Professor P.A. Kudriavchenko; since 2006-2013 she has been working in theater (the Moscow School of Dramatic Arts) as a singer and an actress (The Stone Guest, or Don Juan Is Dead, directed by A.A. Vasiliev; Gibraltar and an operatic mono-play Letters, directed by K.S Mishin), and continuing studying belle canto under A.G. Nashchokin. She was the winner of the 2008 Festos Students’ Competition, a Diploma holder of the International School of Vocal Skills and of Academy Santa Croce in Trieste.
Natalia Pavlova is soloist at the Ghironda orchestra, of the Moscow philharmonic and of Opera theater for young singers in Moscow. She performed the parts of Violetta in La Traviata (Opera Theater of the State Conservatory of Moscow, Auditorium di Duomo in Florence, Teatro del opera di Volterra andelsewhere), Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia (Nuova cinema palazzo with Orchestra N.C), La Contessa in W.A. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Iolanta in Iolanta, Mimi in La Boheme (Opera Theater of the CSC of Moscow), Elvira in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (Accademia Santa Croce in Trieste), Serpina in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona (Opera theater of Dershavin’s museum in St Petersburg, with orchestra of Michailovsky opera theater ), Monooperas The waiting by M.Tariverdiev, La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc (Electrotheater of Moscow) and other.
In 2003-2017, Natalia Pavlova performed on various concerts stages in Moscow (The Small, Big and Rakhmaninov’s Halls of the Moscow Chaikovsky State Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, The International House of Music, the Central House of Performing Artists, the Art-Play Gallery, the Electrotheater, the School of Dramatic Arts, in Catholic church of Santa Maria’s immaculate conception, in a Catholic church of Peter and Paul, in Artcentre.Moscow , and elsewhere), in St. Petersburg (Big Hall of Shostakovitch’s Filarmony, the Maltese Temple, with program of works by Bach for a voice and organ, in the Museum of Dershavin) and in other cities of Russia.
Natalia Pavlova has performed in Vienna, Bern, Zürich, Venice, Rome, Florence, Peruggia, Pescara, Fermo, Capri, Cyprus, Split, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Spalato, Geneva, and in other cities of Europe. Natalia Pavlova collaborated with such musicians as Vladimir Jurowski, Teodor Kurendsis, Giovanni Sollima, Nando Citarella, Marco Celli Stein, Fabrizio Da Ros, Monica Lescovar, Marcello Lippi, Fabrizio Bosso, Y. Medianik, Antonio Pantaneschi, Angelo Nardinocchi, Gustavo Tavares, Valeri Simone, Manfredo di Crescenzo, T. Kuindzhi, M. Arkadiev, M. Mihailov, P. Aidu, Ye. Petrov, A. Goribol, E. Revich, R. Komachkov, A. Sorshneva, Paola Crisi Giovanni, Kaori Matsui, Sergio Lastella, Anna Grossi, K. Volosnikov, Orante Bellanima, G. Gusev, Pavel Bykov et al. She performs with Russian poet Vera Pavlova in “Mothers and Daughters” program.
Natalia Pavlova also actively performs contemporary music. She has recorded 2 CD with Iraida Yusupova‘s compositions in collaboration with Natalia Rubinshtein and Brahms-trio, and with D. Cheglakovim and K. Lukinovym (including Dreams fowler based on David Colantoni‘s poems and Petrel based of M. Gorky’s poems), she has recorded Venus Rey’s compositiones 3 Bachiane mexicane with Orchestra del Veneto e di Padova, conducted by Fabrizio Da Ros.
In the summer of 2013, at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Natalia Pavlova sang Ksenia in Prokofiev's Boris Godunov and Cordelia in Dmitri Shostakovich's King Lear with the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Choir, with Maxim Mikhailov (bass), and Vladimir Jurowski conducting. She also sang The Brazilian Bachiana by Heitor Villa-Lobos at the Music Masters International Festival in Moscow, with a cello orchestra conducted by Giovanni Sollima, and at the Cypress International Festival dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Stanislavsky’s birth. In 2014-2015 she sang at the international festival” 11 lune” in Volterra, at the Moscow House of Music on the occasion of The Sounds of Moscow international festival, and at The Mysteriograph Festival (the main part in the ballet-opera Annunaki by Iraida Yusupova ).
In 2016 Natalia Pavlova became a soloist of Ghironda orchestra. With Ghironda Orchestra (conducted by Gian Antonio Ippolito) she perfomed in Major Roman Basilicas (San Vitale, San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Dei Santi Apostoli). She performs Michael Tariverdiyev’s song-cycle with A. Goribol and E. Tarasova, and mono-opera Waiting in collaboration with Bel Sound Orchestra in the Moscow Philharmonic and the Moscow Youth Opera dedicated to the Tariverdiev’s anniversary, La voix humaine by F. Poulenc in Electrotheatre and DOM in Moscow. In 2017 Natalia perfoms Paola Crisigiovanni’s La corda in Auditorium di Roma Parco Della Musica Sala Sinopoli with Orchestra Dei Marsi, conductor Massimiliano De Foglio with Alessandro Preziosi (narrator), Nando Citarella (tenor), Fabrizio Bosso (trumpet) and other.
Natalia Pavlova lives in Moscow and Rome. She married David Colantoni on March 22, 2014.. |