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The young mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz is hailed as one of Austria’s foremost upcoming artists. Since beginning her studies in Lied and Oratorio with Florian Boesch and Claudia Visca in 2019, she was awarded the Casinos Austria Rising Star Award 2019 and named as a prizewinner at the ÖJAB Music Competition Vienna and the Osaka Music Competition in Japan. In the same year she received an Anny Felbermayer scholarship.
In autumn 2020 Patricia Nolz received critical acclaim for her debut as Cherubino in a new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Theater an der Wien. After two years with the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera, where she celebrated her first successes as Cherubino and as Zerlina in a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni under Philippe Jordan, she joined the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera from the 2022-2023 season onwards. Her celebrated roles have since included Zerlina/Don Giovanni, for which she recieved the Austrian Music Theatre Award, La Musica & La Speranza in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, as Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia, as Page in a new production of Strauss's Salome and as Cherubino in a new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Philippe Jordan and staged by Barrie Kosky. A further highlight in the 2022/2023 season was her debut as Rosina in a new production of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy.
In the upcoming season she will again sing her signature roles Zerlina and Cherubino at the Vienna State Opera, while she can also be heard for the first time as Annio in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, in the new production of Puccini's Il Trittico conducted by Philippe Jordan, as Orlovsky in the traditional Fledermaus at the end the year, and as Siébel in Gounod's Faust conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
Patricia Nolz has performed in numerous concerts and is an accomplished Lied singer. Recent highlights have included Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Karina Canellakis, Bach's B minor Mass with the Ensemble Barucco under Heinz Ferlesch, Mozart & Haydn arias and Mozart’s Requiem with Concentus Musicus and Stefan Gottfried at the Harnoncourt Days in St. Georgen, Purcell's Fairy Queen and Bach’s St. Johns Passion with Concentus Musicus and Stefan Gottfried at the Vienna Musikverein. She also notably took part in the benefit gala in aid of war refugees from Ukraine at the Vienna Stadthalle - broadcast on ORF III - and a Brahms evening as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
Upcoming concert highlights include Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Grafenegg Festival, a duo recital with Martin Häßler at the Salzkammergut Festwochen in Gmunden, solo recitals at the Kultur.Sommer.Semmering, in Berndorf, Bolzano, at the Graz Musikverein, as well as Brahms Liebesliederwalzer at the festivals in Como, Hindsgavl, Feuchtwangen and Moritzburg.
In the 2023-2024 season, she will be perform regularly at the Wiener Konzerthaus as part of the hall’s "Great Talent" programme, undertaking various orchestral concerts and song recitals. She will also perform Mendelssohn's Paulus with the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons and Schubert's Mass in A flat major with Concentus Musicus under Stefan Gottfried at the Vienna Musikverein.
2023 | 2024
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Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus
Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gabriel of Eisenstein
Camilla Nylund, Rosalinde
Wolfgang Bankl, Frank
Patricia Nolz, Prinz Orlofsky
Hiroshi Amako, Alfred, a tenor
Martin Häßler, Dr. Falke
Norbert Ernst, Dr. Blind
Regula Mühlemann, Adele
Ileana Tonca, Ida
Simone Young, conductor
Otto Schenk, staging
Günther Schneider-Siemssen, stage
Milena Canonero, costume
Gerlinde Dill, choreography in act 2 "Under Thunder and Lightning"
Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus
Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gabriel of Eisenstein
Camilla Nylund, Rosalinde
Wolfgang Bankl, Frank
Patricia Nolz, Prinz Orlofsky
Hiroshi Amako, Alfred, a tenor
Martin Häßler, Dr. Falke
Norbert Ernst, Dr. Blind
Regula Mühlemann, Adele
Ileana Tonca, Ida
Simone Young, conductor
Otto Schenk, staging
Günther Schneider-Siemssen, stage
Milena Canonero, costume
Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus
Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gabriel of Eisenstein
Camilla Nylund, Rosalinde
Wolfgang Bankl, Frank
Patricia Nolz, Prinz Orlofsky
Hiroshi Amako, Alfred, a tenor
Martin Häßler, Dr. Falke
Norbert Ernst, Dr. Blind
Regula Mühlemann, Adele
Ileana Tonca, Ida
Simone Young, conductor
Otto Schenk, staging
Günther Schneider-Siemssen, stage
Milena Canonero, costume
Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus
Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gabriel of Eisenstein
Camilla Nylund, Rosalinde
Wolfgang Bankl, Frank
Patricia Nolz, Prinz Orlofsky
Hiroshi Amako, Alfred, a tenor
Martin Häßler, Dr. Falke
Norbert Ernst, Dr. Blind
Regula Mühlemann, Adele
Ileana Tonca, Ida
Simone Young, conductor
Otto Schenk, staging
Günther Schneider-Siemssen, stage
Milena Canonero, costume
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni KV 527
Christian Van Horn, Don Giovanni
Antonio Di Matteo, Komtur
Slávka Zámečníková, Donna Anna
Bogdan Volkov, Don Ottavio
Federica Lombardi, Donna Elvira
Peter Kellner, Leporello
Patricia Nolz, Zerlina
Martin Häßler, Masetto
Philippe Jordan, conductor
Barrie Kosky, staging
Katrin Lea Tag, stage and costumes
Franck Evin, light
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