Regina Nathan (born 17 August 1960) is an Irish soprano.
Regina Nathan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
| Genres | Opera |
| Occupation | Soprano |
Biography
editNathan was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was raised in Dublin.[1] She studied at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the College of Music, Dublin (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama), Trinity College of Music, London and at the National Opera Studio. She represented Ireland at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, has performed with Placido Domingo in Dublin and proclaimed as Ireland's outstanding New Entertainer of the year in 1991. She has worked with a number of orchestras including the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.[2][3][4]
In 1994 she was the subject of an hour long documentary made for RTÉ by Louis Lentin, The Quality of Rapture.[5]
Nathan performed on four of the twenty tracks of the multi-platinum selling compilation album Faith of Our Fathers.[citation needed]
Nathan has given world premières of contemporary works, including John Buckley's Maynooth Te Deum (1995) and Mark-Anthony Turnage's The Country of the Blind (1997). She taught at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama between 2005 and 2007.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. Harry White & Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 720.
- ^ "'I felt this was the fella but I didn't want him to be' - Independent.ie". independent.ie. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "Regina Nathan (soprano) - Artist - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". hyperion-records.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "Regina Nathan | Maynooth University". maynoothuniversity.ie. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Lentin, Louis (1994) The Quality of Rapture, RTE