Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tivoly Festival Agency-Copenhagen, Denmark (started 1993)