Nathan Lay is fast establishing himself as one of Australia's leading operatic baritones. 　　Since graduating from the Melba Conservatorium of Music, Nathan has established his career in the Melbourne opera and oratorio scene. Nathan has won the National Liederfest, Australian Music Events’ Opera Scholar of the Year, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria, and placed 3rd in the Herald Sun Aria. He has performed with Opera Australia (A Masked Ball, Aida, Falstaff, Tosca), Melbourne Opera (‘Schaunard’ - La Boheme, ‘Guglielmo’ - Cosi fan tutte), and has just completed the Developing Artist Program at Victorian Opera, having performed ‘The Baker/Billy Webster’ - Sunday in the Park with George, ‘The King’ - Puss in Boots, ‘Barone Douphol’ - La traviata, ‘Father’ - Hansel and Gretel, ‘Bunyip Bluegum’ - The Magic Pudding – The Opera, ‘Young Recruit’ in Richard Mills’ Remembrance, and in the quartet for Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden.