New Zealand-American soprano Patricia Westley is praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “hugely impressive artist” who sings with a “deep velvety tone” and “sparkling vivacity”.

For the 2023/24 season, she joins the Ensemble at Stadttheater Bern to perform in Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze), Jenůfa (Karolka), and Siegfried (Waldvogel). Most recently, she sang as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with The Orchestra Now at Bard College, and Soprano 1 in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Charlotte Symphony. Upcoming engagements include Arabella (Zdenka), Rigoletto (Gilda), Les pêcheurs de perles (Leïla), and Götterdämmerung (Woglinde).

In the 21/22 season, Ms. Westley debuted at Teatro la Fenice as First Niece in a new production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. Other recent highlights include Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Musetta in La bohème, and debuts with the Oakland Symphony as the soloist in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and the Pacific Symphony, singing multiple roles in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.

Ms. Westley is a graduate of the Benenson Young Artist Program at Palm Beach Opera, an Atkins Young Artist at the Mariinsky Theatre, and spent two summers with the prestigious Merola Opera Program where she sang Elisa in Mozart’s Il re pastore and created the role of Selena in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s If I Were You.

A lifelong devotee of poetry, Ms. Westley enjoys collaborating with pianists in the performance of song. She recently collaborated with Opera Santa Barbara for their digital recital series alongside pianist Timothy Accurso. In 2019, Patricia sang a Schwabacher Debut Recital alongside Martin Katz, presented by Merola Opera and the San Francisco Opera Center.

Ms. Westley is a 2023 Gerda Lissner Foundation Grant Winner, a New York district winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and has also received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, the East Bay Opera League, and Franco-American Vocal Academy. She was awarded the esteemed Opera Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma, and career grants from both the University of Oklahoma and Carnegie Mellon University.

Patricia Westley is represented by Devere Burnett at IMG Artists.