A second-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, Natalie Image was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finalist, praised by the New York Times for her “pristine high notes” and by Operawire for her “crystalline tone [which] swirled through the house.” Her singing has also been described as “crisp [and] buoyant” with “sparkling coloratura and vocal cascades” by the San Francisco Chronicle after the 2017 Merola Grand Finale Concert. As a participant in the Merola Opera Program, she also sang Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. Last December, Image performed the title role in the North American premiere of Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella with Opera San Jose. Other appearances have included performing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 as the Concerto Competition winner and Aurore in Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon with San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). Past highlights include Handel’s Messiah with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Johanna in Sweeney Todd (Opera on the Avalon), and Mrs. De Rocher in Dead Man Walking (Opera NUOVA). Image completed her master’s degree at SFCM in 2017, studying with César Ulloa. Her undergraduate studies were in Toronto, Canada, with the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music.