The young mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz is one of the most promising Austrian artists. Since 2019 she has been studying for a Master’s degree in Lied and Oratorio with Florian Boesch and Claudia Visca. She is the winner of the Casinos Austria Rising Star Award 2019 and was awarded at competitions such as the ÖJAB Music Competition Vienna and the Osaka Music Competition in Japan. In 2019 she was an Anny Felbermayer scholarship holder.
In autumn 2020 Patricia Nolz was highly acclaimed 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 in the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera, where she celebrated her first successes as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and as Zerlina in a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni under the direction of Philippe Jordan, she joined the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera from the 2022-2023 season onwards. Patricia Nolz will appear in roles such as Zerlina/Don Giovanni, La Musica & La Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, as Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Wellgunde/Rheingold & Götterdämmerung. In the new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Philippe Jordan and staged by Barrie Kosky, she will take on the role of Cherubino and in the new production of Strauss’s Salome she will embody the Page. Another highlight in the 2022/2023 season is her debut as Rosina in a new production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy.
Patricia Nolz has performed in numerous concerts and is an accomplished lied singer. Recent highlights have included Beethoven’s IX Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis, Bach’s B minor Mass with the Ensemble Barucco under Heinz Ferlesch, Mozart & Haydn arias with the Concentus Musicus and Stefan Gottfried at the Harnoncourt Days in St. Georgen, her debut at the Vienna Musikverein with Purcell’s Fairy Queen with the Concentus Musicus and conducted by Stefan Gottfried, as well as a benefit gala in aid of war refugees from Ukraine at the Vienna Stadthalle, which was broadcast on ORF III. Concert Highlights of the 2022-2023 season include her participation in a Brahms evening as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Bach’s St. John Passion with the Concentus Musicus conducted by Stefan Gottfried at the Vienna Musikverein and Mendelssohn’s a Midsummernights’s Dream at the Grafenegg Festival. In the 2022/2023 Season she will be featured as “Great Talent” at the Vienna Konzerthaus, where she will be involved in several concerts.
