About

Nadiana Ortiz Is a Puerto Rican classically trained dramatic mezzo-soprano. Her musical journey began at a very young age coming from a long line of family musicians and singers predestined her future as a musician.

Early on, she fell in love with art song, exploring composers such as Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Mahler, Tchaikovsky & Mussorgsky; performing her first song cycle of Schumann’s: Frauenliebe und Leben. The voice has continued to evolve and is now more suited towards operatic repertoire roles including Wagner’s Ring cycle character Erda; Verd’s Il Trovatore: Azucena, and Requiem. Other works in preparation are Wagner’s Ring Götterdämmerung: Waltraute, Puccini’s Suor Angelica: La Zia Principessa, and Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila: Dalila.

She made her operatic debut as part of the ensemble of Puccini’s Turandot at Union Avenue opera and then returned for her role duet just a couple of years as Maria in Porgy & Bess by Gershwin. After relocating to Vienna where she continued her studies and career touring for the next several years branching out into other genres. She also began taking on voice students and instructing them in the singing technique that changed her life.

Due to a very dear family member’s illness and lifechanging Covid19; causing the whole world to take pause and singing ceased publicly. As the world began to normalize again, she joined with the St. Louis Symphony to continue making music, performing scenes from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.