Natalya Romaniw Jumped Into ‘Die Walküre’ and Owned Her Role

Romaniw grew Near Swansea, Wales, and was raised by his mother, a police officer who works in cases of domestic violence and his grandparents. No one in his family was especially musical, but there was something operatic about his Ukrainian grandfather, a safe and eccentric character who would regularly enter the song while walking down the street.

He moved to London to attend Guildhall School of Music and Drama without having seen an opera. (“Falstaff” by Verdi, the first, was a fun introduction. “Then I saw” Capricio, “he said with a smile.” I still can’t get into it. “Scala, Bolshoi theater and the metropolitan opera.

“What I had was fear,” he said. “And it was very, very credulous.”

Romaniw was surprised, then, when he felt fear. While in Houston, in the young artist program there, the sudden lucidity led to great performance anxiety, he said.

“You can put yourself in some really growing positions where you are inhibited, because you are too obsessed with wanting everything to be perfect,” he said. This anxiety, added to the feeling of “too many chefs” involved with their technique, had returned to Britain feeling as “a nervous disaster.” He took six months to prepare psychologically to take any song advice again.

Romaniw has been an ambassador to the beneficial organization to help musicians during the last five years, and is happy to talk about topics such as scenic fear, weight changes and mental health problems, that previous generations of opera stars could move away. “Efgosously, I used to enjoy it if I saw someone with very high status errors,” he said. “I thought,” Look, they are human! “I would have given anything someone said,” I sang Gilda in an angry and lost the upper note. “

In recent years, Romaniw’s voice has developed as his body has changed. When she was pregnant in 2023, she was singing Ariadne in “Ariadne Auf Naxos” of Strauss in Garsington Opera. Suddenly he felt his sound deepened. “It was really refreshing and surprising sinking these long, large and wide lines,” he said. “My breath job improved, because I had that lower support that helped me feel that I could fly on the orchestra.”