Regina Nathan

Regina Nathan (born 17 August 1960) is a well-known Irish soprano.

Nathan was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was raised in Dublin. She studied at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, the College of Music, Dublin (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama), Trinity College of Music, London and at the National Opera Studio. She represented Ireland at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, has performed in with Placido Domingo in Dublin and proclaimed as Ireland's outstanding New Entertainer of the year in 1991. She has worked with a wide range of orchestras including the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

In 1994 she was the subject of an hour long documentary made for RTÉ by Louis Lentin, The Quality of Rapture.

Nathan has given world premières of contemporary works, including John Buckley's Maynooth Te Deum (1995) and Mark-Anthony Turnage's The Country of the Blind (1997). She has taught at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama between 2005 and 2007.