Natalya Popovich is a National Artist of Russia, a RF State Prize winner, and Head of the Novaya Opera Artistic Board. Upon graduation from the Urals State Conservatory in 1973, Natalya Popovich worked as the chief choirmaster of the Sverdlovsk Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet together with Evgeny Kolobov who was the theatre‘s principal conductor.

In 1981, Yury Temirkanov offered her the post of chief choirmaster of the Kirov Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad (now Mariinsky Theatre). There she worked with many opera master such as choirmaster Aleksandr Murin, conductors Yuri Temirkanov, Evgeny Kolobov and Valery Gergiev, director Boris Pokrovsky.

In 1988, Natalia Popovich was appointed chief choirmaster of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Musical Theatre in Moscow, where she worked till 1991.

Together with the outstanding Russian conductor Evgeny Kolobov, Natalya Popovich was one of the founders of the Novaya Opera Theatre in 1991. Since then she has been the leader of the Novaya Opera choir. The choir‘s repertoire comprises over 20 operatic works of foreign and Russian composers, a capella sacred music, large-scale cantatas and oratorios.