Adjudicators

YVONNE PATRICK

Yvonne Patrick studied at the RNCM and began her professional career with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.  She joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1994 and made her Glyndebourne Touring Opera debut singing Despina Cosi fan tutte. In The Bartered Bride she sang the role of Esmeralda which included training to be a trapeze artist!  For Opera North she sang Musetta La Boheme.  She has also worked for WNO, Garsington Opera, Kentish Opera, Carl Rosa Opera Company, Swansea City Opera, Garden Opera,  and Opera Brava.  Roles include Violetta, La Traviata, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Micaela Carmen, Pamina and First Lady The Magic Flute, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni,  Cio cio san Madame Butterfly, Mimi La Boheme  and Rosalinda and Adele Die Fledermaus.

On a tour of Kenya, she was the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at Nairobi Cathedral.   As a well-known performer of Gilbert and Sullivan, she has appeared as soprano soloist with the Philadelphia Savoy Company in America.  Yvonne is a regular guest performer on cruises and has appeared on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night.

Alongside her busy performing career, Yvonne works extensively for the education departments of major UK opera companies.  She teaches privately and at Windlesham House School in West Sussex.

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