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Uruguayan-Australian soprano Natasha Isabella Gesto is a second year Master of Music (Vocal Arts) student and Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, studying under Darrell Babidge.  Natasha received her Bachelor of Music and a Graduate Diploma in Music (Opera Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium, where she was a recipient of the Helen Myers Scholarship, Greenberg-Gurney-Jensen Scholarship and Henderson Travellers Scholarship. Natasha is also a current recipient of the 2025 American Australian Arts Fund.

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This 2024/2025 season Natasha will be making her role debut with The Juilliard School as The Governess from The Turn of the Screw. Natasha most recently performed at the Santa Fe Opera as a first-year apprentice artist where she debuted and created the role of Diedre from Gregory Spears’ The Righteous, in addition to performing as the Dressmaker in Der Rosenkavalier, Magda in La Rondine for the Opera Scenes, and first cover for Annina in La Traviata. Natasha’s recent roles include Nedda (Pagliacci, 2023), Ruth Baldwin (Later the Same Evening, John Musto, The Juilliard School, 2023), La Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro, Prague Summer Nights Festival, 2022), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte, cover performed, 2022), Dame Nellie Melba (Percy – The Opera, 2022).  Some of Natasha’s concert soloist performances include Brahm’s German Requiem (2023), Haydn’s Nelson Mass (2022), Poulenc’s Gloria (2021), and Mozart’s Requiem in D minor (2020).  Natasha was also selected as a Young Star of Australian Opera in 2022. Natasha is looking forward to completing her studies at Juilliard and is excited to see where her craft will take her.