NATALIE CORRIGAN is a Mexican-American mezzo-soprano whose artistry thrives on the power of storytelling. Equally at home in commanding pants roles and opera’s most iconic mezzo heroines, she brings depth, versatility, and vocal richness to every performance.

In the 2025/26 season, Ms. Corrigan joins The Santa Fe Opera’s prestigious Apprentice Program for Singers, where she will make her company debut as Third Boy in The Magic Flute, cover Aunt in Madame Butterfly, and cover Helen Allatini in the American premiere of Lili Elbe by Tobias Picker. She will also be featured in the Apprentice Artist Scenes Concert. She joins Cincinnati Opera in their Opera Fusion: New Works Initiative in collaboration with Washington National Opera in the Spring to workshop a new opera about the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, directed by Francesca Zambello.

In summer of 2025, Ms. Corrigan joined The Glimmerglass Festival as a Resident Artist for the 50th Anniversary Season, originating Ruthie and Shamana 1 in the world premiere of The House on Mango Street, earning praise for her “secure, plush tone in her polished mezzo” as the “magnificently melancholic” Ruthie. She also covered Mother Goose in Eric Sean Fogel’s direction of The Rake’s Progress and Un Pastore in Louisa Proske’s production of Tosca, both under the baton of Joseph Colaneri.

Highlights of her 2024–25 season include Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at CCM, praised for her ““wonderfully smoky, almost seductive (Oberon)… with a full-hearted and lush voice to match” (Cincinnati Classical Concert Reviews), and covering the Alto Soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Queen City Opera.

Ms. Corrigan is a proud recipient of the National Opera Association’s Carolyn Bailey Argento Fellowship and Third Prize in the accompanying scholarship competition. Additional accolades from the 24/25 season include a second Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (Michigan District) and Second Prize in the John Alexander Vocal Competition, leading to recital with Opera Mississippi.

A fierce competitor, Ms. Corrigan has earned recognition from competitions including Schmidt Vocal Arts Foundation, Pittsburgh Festival Opera Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition, Matinee Musicale Nancy Walker Scholarship Competition, Florida Grand Opera’s Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition, James Toland Vocal Arts, Dayton Opera’s Tri-State College Vocal Competition, Opera Grand Rapids’ Vanderlaan Prize, SAS Performing Arts, MIOpera, Three Arts Scholarship Fund, Music for Humanity Scholarship Fund, Classical Singer Competition, Hal Leonard Art Song Competition, Musician’s Club of Women Vocal Competition (Chicago), and Delta Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

Performance credits include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Bradamante in Alcina, Dido in Dido & Aeneas, Soeur Antoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, La Badessa in Suor Angelica, Cupid in Orpheus in the Underworld, and L’Écureuil in L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Cupid in Orpheus in the Underworld, Gertrude Stein (cover) and Anna Hope (cover) in The Mother of Us All. She also performed Shamana 3/Tree 2/Nenny in the first workshop of The House on Mango Street with Chautauqua Opera.

She is currently pursuing her Masters of Music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she also earned her Bachelors of Music. Ms. Corrigan is an alumna of the Chautauqua Opera Institute, Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy, and Michigan Opera Theatre Children’s Chorus, where she first found her passion for opera performing Dog in Brundibar and Thranduil in the U.S. premiere of The Hobbit.

Ms. Corrigan has been a proud recipient of full-tuition scholarships throughout her academic career, including the Darwin T. Turner Scholarship, Cincinnatus Scholarship, and CCM Power Scholarship, ensuring her studies were fully funded.

Ms. Corrigan is deeply committed to increasing representation in opera, particularly for Latinx artists and the craniofacial difference community. As a Mexican-American singer born with a cleft lip and palate, she strives to amplify diverse voices and challenge outdated beauty standards in classical music. Through her performances and advocacy, she hopes to inspire the next generation of artists to see themselves on stage and know their stories matter.

Outside of her musical life, Natalie enjoys exploring fashion and styling, enthusiastically decorating her home for every holiday, traveling and discovering new cuisines, taking ballet lessons, and collecting whimsical plush toys and figurines, especially Sonny Angels, Jellycats, and Labubus.