New Zealand-American soprano Patricia Westley has been praised for her “silver-fine soprano” (Platform J), “crystalline high notes” (WDAV Classical Public Radio), and “exemplary bel canto” (San Francisco Classical Voice). 

In the 2025/26 season, she returns for her third season at Bühnen Bern, where she will appear in three new productions: Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (dir. Raimund Orfeo Voigt, cond. Alevtina Ioffe), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (dir. Marco Štorman, cond. Clément Lonca), and Cassandra in the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s L’Agamennone (dir. David Hermann, cond. Clément Lonca). She will also sing the soprano solo in Fauré’s Requiem. Additional 2025 engagements include Clotilde in Bellini’s Norma with La Banda Storica.

In the 2024/25 season, Ms. Westley returned to Bühnen Bern for her second season as an ensemble member, making acclaimed role debuts as Gilda in Rigoletto, Zdenka in Arabella, and Woglinde in Götterdämmerung. She also made her debut at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of Daniel Harding in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust.

In the 2023/24 season, she joined the Ensemble at Bühnen Bern, performing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Karolka in Jenůfa, and Waldvogel in Siegfried. She also appeared as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, Missa Solemnis with The Orchestra Now at Bard College, and Lobgesang with the Charlotte Symphony.

In the 2021/22 season, Ms. Westley made her Teatro La Fenice debut as First Niece in Peter Grimes. Other highlights include Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Musetta (La bohème), and performances with the Oakland Symphony (Ein deutsches Requiem) and Pacific Symphony (L’enfant et les sortilèges).

She is a graduate of the Benenson Young Artist Program at Palm Beach Opera, an Atkins Young Artist at the Mariinsky Theatre, and a two-time participant in the Merola Opera Program.

A passionate interpreter of art song and poetry, Ms. Westley enjoys collaborating with pianists in recital. She has appeared in Opera Santa Barbara’s digital recital series and performed 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 received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, the East Bay Opera League, and the Franco‑American Vocal Academy. She was awarded the Opera Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma and career grants from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oklahoma.

She is currently represented by Devere Burnett at IMG Artists.