Mezzosoprano Natascha Petrinsky was born in Vienna. After her graduation as a lawyer, she studied singing at the University of Tel-Aviv with Tamar Rachum. She began her international career at the New Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv. Ms. Petrinsky performs in major international opera houses such as La Scala, Covent Garden, Teatro Real Madrid, Oper unter den Linden, Bayreuther Festspiele, Sydney Opera, La Monnaie/ De Munt Brussels, New National Theater Tokyo, Opera Hongkong and numerous others. Furthermore, she is also a regular concert performer and has a wide range of critically acclaimed CDs and DVDs. The artist works with famous Maestri such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Muti, Jeffrey Tate, Michael Boder, Ingo Metzmacher, Andrew Davies, Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Kazushi Ono, Lothar Koenigs, Marko Letonja as well as Donald Runnicles.