Regina Nathan (born 17 August 1960) is an Irish

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Biography

Nathan was born in

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, and was raised in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

. She studied at

St Patrick's College, Maynooth St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland. ...

, the College of Music, Dublin (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama),

Trinity College of Music Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...

, London and at the

National Opera Studio The National Opera Studio in London, England was established in 1977 by the Arts Council as a link between the music colleges and the six main UK opera companies. It was resident at Morley College in Lambeth until 2003, when it gained use for th ...

. She represented Ireland at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, has performed with

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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 The RTÉ Concert Orchestra is one of the two full-time professional radio orchestras in Ireland that are part of RTÉ, the national broadcasting station. Since its formation as the Radio Éireann Light Orchestra in 1948, the RTÉ Concert Orchestr ...

. In 1994 she was the subject of an hour long documentary made for RTÉ by

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, ''The Quality of Rapture''.Lentin, Louis (1994) The Quality of Rapture, RTE Nathan performed on four of the twenty tracks of the multi-platinum selling compilation album ''Faith of Our Fathers''. Nathan has given world premières of contemporary works, including John Buckley's ''Maynooth Te Deum'' (1995) and

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's ''The Country of the Blind'' (1997). She taught at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama between 2005 and 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nathan, Regina 1960 births Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth 20th-century Irish women opera singers Irish operatic sopranos Living people 21st-century Irish women opera singers Singers from Dublin (city) Musicians from Kuala Lumpur