Soprano Patricia Racette continues to set the standard in works both classic and new.
Ms. Racette maintains strong relationships with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera (where she is an alumna of the Merola Opera Program and a former Adler Fellow), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. Seen regularly at these houses, her many roles have included the title roles in
Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Luisa Miller, Iphegénie en Tauride, Jenufa, and
Kátya Kabanová; all three lead soprano roles in
Il Trittico, Mimi and Musetta in
La Bohème, Nedda in
Pagliacci, Elisabetta in
Don Carlos, Leonora in
Il Trovatore, Alice in
Falstaff, Marguerite in
Faust, Mathilde in
Guillaume Tell, Madame Lidoine in
Dialogues des Carmélites, Margherita in Boito’s
Mefistofele, Ellen Orford in
Peter Grimes, Governess in
The Turn of the Screw, and Tatyana in
Eugene Onegin.
Ms. Racette has also appeared at the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Opera di Genova, Bayerische Staatsoper, Vienna State Opera, and the Saito Kinen Festival. ...
read full bioSoprano Patricia Racette continues to set the standard in works both classic and new.
Ms. Racette maintains strong relationships with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera (where she is an alumna of the Merola Opera Program and a former Adler Fellow), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. Seen regularly at these houses, her many roles have included the title roles in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Luisa Miller, Iphegénie en Tauride, Jenufa, and Kátya Kabanová; all three lead soprano roles in Il Trittico, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Elisabetta in Don Carlos, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Alice in Falstaff, Marguerite in Faust, Mathilde in Guillaume Tell, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, Margherita in Boito’s Mefistofele, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Governess in The Turn of the Screw, and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.
Ms. Racette has also appeared at the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Opera di Genova, Bayerische Staatsoper, Vienna State Opera, and the Saito Kinen Festival.
Her most recent performances of Madama Butterfly and Peter Grimes at the Metropolitan Opera were seen in HD in movie theaters across the world. The broadcast of Madama Butterfly was one of the most successful broadcasts in the history of the Metropolitan Opera’s The Met: Live in HD series and was recently released on DVD.
A supporter of new works by today’s leading composers, Ms. Racette most recently created the role of Leslie Crosbie in the world premiere of Paul Moravec’s The Letter at the Santa Fe Opera. Other world premieres have included Roberta Alden in Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera, the title role in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline at the Santa Fe Opera (subsequently broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances), and Love Simpson in Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera.
On the concert platform, Ms Racette has appeared with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dusseldorfer Philharmoniker, and the Cologne Philharmonic. She also recorded Zemlinsky’s Der Traumgorge with James Conlon and the Cologne Philharmonic.
This season, Ms. Racette opens the Washington National Opera’s season as Tosca, returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Tosca and Madama Butterfly and makes her debut at the Seattle Opera in Madama Butterfly.
Born and raised in New Hampshire, Ms. Racette studied jazz and music education at North Texas State University. She is winner of the prestigious 1998 Richard Tucker Award.
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