Natalie Polito, hailed as “one of the finest young sopranos in Greater Boston” by The Patriot Ledger, recently made her debut with the Santa Fe Symphony as the Soprano Soloist in Bach’s Cantata No. 51 and Villa Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. The 2011 recipient of the Santa Fe Opera’s Lillian Caroff Mayer award, Ms. Polito joined Santa Fe’s prestigious Apprentice Singer Program during the summer of 2011, where she covered Kitty in The Last Savage, Marie in Wozzeck, and appeared as The Controller in scenes from Flight and Ilia in scenes from Idomeneo. In March of 2012, Ms. Polito will be seen as Musetta in La Bohème with Boston Opera Collaborative, a role that she will reprise in June of 2012 in her debut with the Green Mountain Opera Festival under the baton of internationally renowned conductor Leonardo Vordoni. Other recent performances include the title role in The Merry Widow with Cape Cod Opera, Nancy Shedman in the world premiere of Larry Bell’s Holy Ghosts at the Berklee Performance Center, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Boston’s MetroWest Opera, and The Girl in the premiere of James Yannatos’s Rocket’s Red Blare with Intermezzo Chamber Opera.

Ms. Polito is an alumna of the Sarasota Opera Apprentice Program, where she covered the Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte and was the recipient of the 2010 Sarasota Opera Guild Special Artist Award. In 2009, she joined the Studio Artist Program of Opera New Jersey, where she covered Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Ms. Polito’s other recent engagements include Isabella (cover) in the world premiere of A Place of Beauty with Intermezzo: The New England Chamber Opera Series, the Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Commonwealth Opera, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus at Riverside Theatre Works, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and The Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen, both with Boston Opera Collaborative, and Mimi in La Bohème with Opera To Go.

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