Patricia Orr Mezzo Soprano
Recipient of INDEPENDENT OPERA Postgraduate Voice Fellowship (National Opera Studio)
Patricia Orr read Law and French at the University of Glasgow and graduated in 1999 with a First Class Honours degree, the McCormack prize as the most distinguished graduate of the academic year and a distinction in French language. Patricia continued her studies at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the Royal College of Music and at the National Opera Studio. She studies with Anne Mason.
Patricia sang the role of Yolande in Elizabeth Maconchy’s The Sofa and covered the role of Julia in The Departure for INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler’s Wells in 2007. Operatic roles include Laura (Iolanta) for Opera Holland Park in 2008, and Varvara (Káťa Kabanová) for Opera Holland Park in 2009; the cover of Flora (La traviata) and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) for Scottish Opera in autumn 2008 / spring 2009 and the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) and Orimeno (Erismena) for English Touring Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus. For the Benjamin Britten International Opera School she has sung the title role in Handel’s Tolomeo in association with the London Handel Society conducted by Laurence Cummings, the Enfant (L’Enfant et les Sortileges), Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia) and Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus).
She has performed as the mezzo soprano soloist in the premiere of Michael Stimpson’s Clouds of War with the English Chamber Orchestra at the Cadogan Hall and has sung with both the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Quartet in Scotland. She was a finalist in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition 2006.
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