Her repertoire has continued to expand to include acclaimed portrayals of Salome, La fanciulla del West (Minnie), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Katerina), The Consul (Magda), Street Scene (Anna Maurrant), Jenůfa (Kostelnička), and La voix humaine (Elle). She recently added several roles to her repertoire, including Dead Man Walking (Sister Helen), Hänsel und Gretel (the Witch, the Mother), and A Little Night Music (Desirée Armfeldt). A favorite of audiences worldwide, Racette has been prominently featured in The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series as both leading lady in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Pagliacci (Nedda), and Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford), as well as a celebrated host for multiple other productions.

A champion of new works, she has created roles in multiple world premieres, including The Letter (Leslie Crosbie), An American Tragedy (Roberta Alden), the title role in Emmeline, Cold Sassy Tree (Love Simpson), and most recently, the title role in Dolores Claiborne.

Aside from her operatic canon, Racette returned to her jazz roots with her album Diva on Detour in 2013. Along with pianist Craig Terry, she has performed this one-woman show in more than fifty venues across the United States and internationally. More recently, she curated her show Patricia Sings Piaf in collaboration with Mr. Terry. They premiered the show at the Harris Theater in Chicago and have since taken it to Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, Sheldon in St. Louis, as well as Seattle Opera.

Racette made her directorial debut with a new production of La traviata at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) in the summer of 2018. Other OTSL productions have included Susannah and La voix humaine, the latter in which she both directed and sang the leading role. In the summer of 2026, she directs a new production of A Streetcar Named Desire for the company. Her Susannah will also be mounted at Opera Omaha. Other recent productions have included Roméo et Juliette at Arizona Opera, Don Giovanni for the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, The Ghosts of Versailles at Rice University, The Consul for San Francisco Conservatory, the Lindemann Patron Scenes Concert for The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Program, and both Rising Stars and An Evening of Scenes for the Ryan Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago. She looks forward to upcoming directorial debuts at Houston Grand Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago in the coming seasons.

Racette was recently named Artistic Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She also continues to serve as the company’s Artistic Director of the Gerdine Young Artist and Richard Gaddes Festival Artist programs, which she has led since 2019. She continues to be sought after as a master teacher to foster artistry in the next generation of classical singers. In January 2017, she presented the pilot program of her intensive seminar, Integrative Artistry, at the San Francisco Conservatory, and has since presented it at The Juilliard School, the Washington National Opera, Arizona Opera’s Marion Roose Pullin Studio, and New England Conservatory. A regular guest clinician at San Francisco Conservatory, she also presented a new class entitled How Cross-genre Singing Informs the Classical Voice.

Born and raised in New Hampshire, Racette studied jazz and music education at the University of North Texas and continued her formative training with the Merola and Adler Fellowship programs at San Francisco Opera, where she went on to sing over thirty leading roles with the company. Among her recognitions are an Opera News Award, the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, and the Marian Anderson Award. She also received the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for her performance in the Los Angeles Opera’s production of The Ghosts of Versailles.

2025-2026