Nadia Vella
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Nadia Vella was born on 20 August, 1986 at St Luqa Hospital at Pieta. She raise up at Rabat Malta.
Nadia is a qualified performer / vocal coach having obtained a distinction in LTCL Vocal Teaching (Trinity College, 2011) - NFQ Level 6 (UK qualifications board) and a 3 Year Diploma in Acting and Musical Theatre Hertfordshire Theatre School, 2009. She is a versatile singer , classically trained with the ability to sing both classical, musical theatre numbers and the latest songs in the charts, having also a powerful high belt voice
Nadia started her musical theatre training at a young age at Masquerade Theatre Arts School Malta and vocal coaching with soprano Gillian Zammit.
At the age of 11 she played Annie at the Manoel Theatre back in 1997. Further roles include 'Annie' in The Ragged Child, 'Rubette’ in The Little Shop of Horrors, ‘Kit-kat girl’ in Cabaret, ‘Morgiana’ in Tin Pan Ali, ‘Clara’ in the opera Werther, ‘Agnes’ in Agnes of God as well as appearing as a soloist in Beyond the Barricade all at the Manoel Theatre. She then worked again with Andy Reiss, of Beyond the Barricade in 2001 as a soloist in Christmas with Beyond the Barricade, (Andy Reiss, University of Malta Campus Theatre.) She has performed in The Young People’s Messiah and played ‘Mary’ in Rock Nativity, at St. James Cavalier.
Nadia was a finalist in the 1st edition of ‘L-Isfida’ on Net Television.
Whilst sitting for her Musical Theatre diploma course at Hertfordshire Theatre School roles under training included 'Soloist' in 'Musical Moments,' (Anne Marie Lewis Thomas, Queen Mother Theatre) 'Angel' in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, (Jack Gunn, Queen Mother Theatre) 'Maria' in Lorca's Yerma, (Kirk Foster, Market Theatre) 'Countess de la Roche Piquet' in Don Juan on Trial, (Simon Bell, Market Theatre) 'Lydia' in Pride and Prejudice, (Kirk Foster, Market Theatre) 'Maggie' in Matchgirls (Pete Gallagher, QMT) 'Helene' in Sweet Charity, (Kirk Foster, QMT) 'Catherine' in Memory of Water, (Mark Stobbart, QMT) 'Milena' in Once we were mothers, (Iain Jones, John Gardiner Studio) 'Soloist' in World War 2 Revue (Kirk Foster, Market Theatre) 'Ghost of Christmas Past' in Scroogie Poogie TIE tour (Self directed) 'Medea' in Moments from Medea (Hilary Lyons, Market Theatre) 'Soloist' in Noel Coward Revue. (Jo Croydon Foster, Market Theatre.) Nadia was lucky enough to work with people like Sebastian Abineri, Russell Labey, Frank Thompson, Jenny Gould, Tim Whiting, Bernard Sharpe, Laurence Broomfield, Sam Lavender, Denise Mulholland and appeared twice in front of resident judges of 'Over the Rainbow' Jacqui Hancock and David Grindrod.
Since graduating, she has performed at the Broadway Theatre(UK) as a soloist in Something Wonderful directed by Richard Ward Roden (Md, Les Miserables), ‘Zerlina’ in the original cast of The Lovers Inn 'Elphaba' in Encore directed by Helene Crosse at the Campus West Theatre in Welwyn Garden City and performed for two months in Hamburg’s ‘Weinachtcircus’ as well as being one of the 100 finalists in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Over the Rainbow. Whilst in Malta during 2010-2011 she performed acoustic sets with Maltese guitarist Keith 'Kiko' Muscat, played 'Ruth' in the Easter time play Is it Me? (Marc Cabourdin, St. James Cavallier) and was a judge on local tv talent competition 'Arpeġġi' - Net TV Malta
Recently 6 and 7 September, 2015 was involved in the muscial 1565 muic by Mro. Paul Abela, lyrics by Malcolm Galea and Artistic Director Anthony Bezzina. A musical produced by Masquerade orginal in 2005. And ten years after produced it again in the Mediterraen Conference Center as a live concert accompanied by the Malta Philarmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the 450 Anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta.
External links
nadvella@hotmail.com