Nadine Mortimer-Smith - Soprano
Nadine Mortimer-Smith has studied for two years at City Opera School at the City Lit, Morley Opera School at Morley College and recently studied with ENO Opera Works at the Coliseum. Her roles have included extracts of Mimì (La Bohème), Pamina (Magic Flute), Magda (La Rondine), Arabella, Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Tosca, Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus).
Her professional operatic work has taken in performances on Radio 2 (Tribute to Malcolm McLaren), at Chilmark Opera (The Night Bell), in Norway (The African Madonna) and a memorial service at The Actors’ Church, Covent Garden along with numerous recitals. Corporate functions have included the Royal Opera House and S J Berwin. Nadine has also performed as an ensemble soprano and soloist in Carmen Jones at the Royal Festival Hall with both the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (May-September 2007) and in Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu’s critically acclaimed Porgy & Bess at the Opera National de Lyon (April-June 2008). In October 2008 she sang the European première of John Harbison’s Milosz Songs for the Second London Festival of American Music.
In June 2009 she was a soloist and ensemble soprano for performances of Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the BBC Concert Orchestra. In August 2009 she covered the role of Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) for Dartington International Summer School (bursary provided by Richard Dunn) and devised, produced and performed the soprano role in the opera compilation “Why Don’t You Just Sing Jazz?” for the Grimeborn 09 Festival at the Arcola Theatre. In autumn 2009 she sang extracts of the roles Mimì (La Bohème) and Maria Stuarda with Riverside Opera.
In 2009 Nadine won the prize for the most promising voice at The Voice of Black Opera Awards where the prestigious panel of judges included the legendary Grace Bumbry. Nadine has been invited by the American Festival to give a solo recital at The Warehouse on the 2nd October 2010 and has been invited back to Opera de Lyon, the Edinburgh International Festival and Dartington to play the role of Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro). She will be singing the role of Dido in Pucell's Dido and Aeneas with Bury Court Opera and Southbank Sinfonia in March and will be recording the Milosz Songs on the LORELT label in the spring of 2010.