Biography
In the 2024-25 season, Patricia Nolz performs Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Vienna State Opera. Also in Vienna, Patricia Nolz makes her debut as as Stéphano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and as Silla in Pfitzner’s Palestrina under the baton of Christian Thielemann. Additionally, she makes her house debut at Copenhagen’s Royal Opera as Rosina in a new production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Patricia Nolz completed her training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Claudia Visca and Florian Boesch. She is the winner of the Casinos Austria Rising Star Award 2019 and has won prizes at competitions such as the ÖJAB Music Competition Vienna and the Osaka Music Competition in Japan. She was an Anny Felbermayer scholarship holder in 2019.
Full Biography
In the 2024-25 season, Patricia Nolz performs Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Vienna State Opera. Also in Vienna, Patricia Nolz makes her debut as as Stéphano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and as Silla in Pfitzner’s Palestrina under the baton of Christian Thielemann. Additionally, she makes her house debut at Copenhagen’s Royal Opera as Rosina in a new production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Patricia Nolz completed her training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Claudia Visca and Florian Boesch. She is the winner of the Casinos Austria Rising Star Award 2019 and has won prizes at competitions such as the ÖJAB Music Competition Vienna and the Osaka Music Competition in Japan. She was an Anny Felbermayer scholarship holder in 2019.
In autumn 2020, she enjoyed great success with her debut as Cherubino in a new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by Stefan Gottfried and directed by Alfred Dorfer. 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 in the 2022-2023 season. Patricia Nolz was awarded the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for her interpretation of Zerlina in Barrie Kosky’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera.
She enjoyed particular success at the Vienna State Opera as Cherubino in the new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Philippe Jordan and staged by Barrie Kosky, as La Musica & La Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, as well as Annio in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, as Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, as Siébel in Gounod’s Faust and as Orlovsky in the traditional Silvester-Fledermaus. Patricia Nolz made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin in spring 2024 as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. She also made her debut at the Edinburgh Festival with this production in summer 2024.
Patricia Nolz is a prolific concert and lieder singer. Highlights of her young career were concerts with Beethoven’s IXth Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Karina Canellakis, as well as with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. She has also performed Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Bach’s St John Passion and Schubert’s Mass in A flat major with the Concentus Musicus under the direction of Stefan Gottfried at the Vienna Musikverein. She has successfully performed solo, duo and ensemble recitals in the Stephaniensaal in Graz, at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, at the Heidelberger Frühling, in Blaibach, Feuchtwangen, Moritzburg, Basel, Como and Bolzano. In the summer of 2023, Patricia Nolz made her debut at the Grafenegg Festival with Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where she returned a year later with arias by Mozart and Haydn together with the Concentus Musicus under the direction of Stefan Gottfried. Patricia Nolz also made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2024 in a Mozart matinée under the direction of Ivor Bolton.
