The Sofa and The Departure

Yolande
Patricia Orr

Patricia is at the National Opera Studio and studies with Anne Mason. She read Law and French at the University of Glasgow, graduating with First Class Honours and a distinction in French language. She received a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Opera Studies at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School at the RCM, where she studied with Margaret Kingsley. Her operatic roles include the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) and Orimeno (Cavalli’s Erismena), both for ETO; Enfant (L’enfant et les sortileges), Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia) and Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus) for the Benjamin Britten International Opera School; and the title role in Handel’s Tolomeo, in association with the London Handel Society. Patricia sang with the Glyndebourne Chorus in the 2007 Festival.