Natalie Wilson
By Bob Aldrich
Natalie Wilson, a Los Gatos mezzo-soprano, is in Rome this month, joining singers and instrumentalists from nine countries for the 25th annual Rome Festival.
Wilson, 24, will sing two roles in Mozart's The Magic Flute, her mother said. Natalie is the daughter of Carolyn and Nathan Wilson of Los Gatos. A 1990 graduate of Leigh High School, she took two musical degrees from the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, where she graduated summa cum laude, and currently is studying for a master of music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has performed as a soloist in Los Gatos-area churches and music ensembles.
Wilson will be a teaching assistant at Boulder, her mother said.
More than 100 artists are expected to perform in the Rome Festival in orchestra concerts, operas, ballets, oratorios and chamber music recitals. Her busy schedule will allow her some spare time to see the sights of Rome.
She was chosen for the Rome adventure in a national audition. Her stay in the Italian capital includes an opportunity to study with master artist-teachers as part of the Rome Festival Summer Institute, sponsored by the Rome Festival Orchestra, Ltd., an American educational organization headquartered in New York City.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, July 17, 1996.
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