Patricia Racette
Patricia Lynn Racette (born in 1965) is an American operatic soprano. A winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 1998, she has been a regular presence at major opera houses internationally. Racette has enjoyed long-term partnerships with the San Francisco Opera, where she has been a regular performer since 1989, and with the Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed since 1995. Also active on the concert stage, Racette has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She also received the award for Best Opera Recording for her performance in the Los Angeles Opera's production of The Ghosts of Versailles at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Racette has particularly excelled in Puccini and Verdi operas. Among her most well-known roles is Violetta in La traviata; Blanche de la Force and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites; both Mimì and Musetta in La bohème; the title heroine in Jenůfa; Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly; the title role in Tosca; Alice Ford in Falstaff; Liù in Turandot; Desdemona in Otello; and Káťa in Káťa Kabanová. She has performed in several world premieres, including the title role in Tobias Picker's Emmeline (1996), and as Leslie Crosby in Paul Moravec's The Letter (2009) at the Santa Fe Opera. She appeared in the premiere of Picker's An American Tragedy (2005) at the Met, and portrayed Love Simpson in the premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree (2000) at the Houston Grand Opera.
Genre: opera
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- Il prigioniero: VI. Scene Four
- Il prigioniero: V. Second Choral Intermezzo
- Il prigioniero: IV. Scene Three
- Il prigioniero: III. Scene Two
- Il prigioniero: II. Scene One
- Il prigioniero: I. Prologue and 1st Choral Intermezzo
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: No, Beaumarchais. It is as it should have been. Once there was a golden bird
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Goodbye, Figaro. Goodbye, Beaumarchais
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: I hope I'm not too late for your party
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Welcome, Madeleine, welcome
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Marie Antoinette of Lorraine and Austria
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Antoinette, we want your head. Order! Order!
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: What is happening
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: And now I must go Bless you Madam, bless you
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: As summer brings a wistful breeze
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Damn that Figaro. He's your husband
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Wait!... Figaro was supposed to return the necklace
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Watch. Now Figaro comes back
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act II: Hurry, hurry... It's late! The second act is beginning!
- The Ghosts of Versailles, Act I: I am in a valley and you are in a valley
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