NathaliePeña-Comas

Nathalie Peña-Comas was born in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and lives in Vienna. Expressive power, vocal versatility and stage presence have taken her to platforms across Europe, Asia and the Americas, among them Austria, Belarus, Colombia, Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the USA and the Vatican.

On the opera stage she has sung Zerlina and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Pamina (The Magic Flute), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Musetta (La Bohème), Micaëla (Carmen), Violetta (La traviata), Lucia in the tango opera Mateo, the Queen of Trolls (The Two Fiddlers) and Gabi (Agleia Federweiss), among others. In the summer of 2025 she appeared as Violetta at the Vienna Opera Summer. She made her acting debut at the Los Angeles Theater Center as the Nightingale in the world premiere of Ghost Waltz.

Festivals at which she has performed include the Emilia Romagna Festival, the Montecatini Opera Festival and the Taranto Opera Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Vienna Opera Summer, the Kittsee Summer Festival and the IMAGO Sloveniae Festival. She has appeared in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, at the Vienna Konzerthaus, at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, at Santa Maria Maggiore, at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, at the National Concert Hall in Taipei and at the Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito in Santo Domingo.

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As a soloist she has worked with the Russian State Philharmonic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Concert-Verein, the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna, the Belarus Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Győr Philharmonic, the Taiwan Philharmonic and the national symphony orchestras of Peru and the Dominican Republic. She has sung under conductors including Eugene Kohn, Valery Polyansky, Martin Sieghart, Ernst Kovacic, Joji Hattori, Ola Rudner, Ferenc Gábor, Harald Krumpöck and José Antonio Molina, and has shared the stage with Gregory Kunde, Ramón Vargas, Stephen Costello, Morris Robinson, Tuomas Katajala, Andrea Bocelli, Johnny Ventura, Danny Rivera and Plácido Domingo Jr.

Her concerts have been broadcast internationally, among others on RAI 3, on Belarusian state radio, on Slovenian national radio and on Dominican state television and radio.

Her album Alta Gracia was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best Classical Album category in 2017. With Spirituosi, a six-piece ensemble devoted to classical and Latin American music, she has performed in Austria, Italy, Spain, England and at home. The debut album Souvenir Latino received three gold medals at the Global Music Awards in Los Angeles and was featured on the BBC Radio 3 playlist.

Her distinctions include First Prize at the Ebe Stignani International Opera Competition in 2022, Second Prize at the Montecatini Opera Festival competition in 2022 and several Soberano awards in the Dominican Republic, most recently in 2026 as outstanding classical artist abroad. In 2013 she was a finalist at the 14th Osaka International Music Competition, and in 2011 she received special prizes at the Ada Sari Competition as most promising soprano and for the best interpretation of a Polish work.

Nathalie Peña-Comas studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Helena Lazarska and Annamaria Rott (voice) and Manfred Wagner-Artzt (piano), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in voice and piano pedagogy. She took masterclasses with Gregory Kunde, Mariella Devia, Michael Recchiuti and Kamal Khan, and has worked with the Romanian voice teacher Irina Gavrilovici since 2018.

Nathalie Peña-Comas has been an official cultural ambassador of the Dominican Republic since 2019. In 2026 she sang the soprano part in Bach’s St John Passion in Vienna for the first time, and in June Carmina Burana for the 85th anniversary of the National Symphony Orchestra in Santo Domingo. Autumn 2026 brings Brahms’s German Requiem in Győr and Vienna and Mahler’s Second Symphony in Santo Domingo.

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