Patricia Craig

Renowned American operatic soprano and voice teacher Patricia Craig joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1990. Her performing career spans more than three decades of major roles in the leading opera houses of the world. She made her Metropolitan debut in 1978 as Marenka in The Bartered Bride under James Levine. Met audiences heard her for the next 12 seasons in a variety of leading roles in operas including Madame Butterfly, Dialogues of the Carmelites, La Boheme, and Mahagonny. Ms. Craig is a specialist in Puccini and Verdi heroines whose other operatic credits include performances with New York City Opera; Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Italy; the Festival of Two Worlds in both Spoleto, Italy, and Charleston, South Carolina; L'Opera de Marseilles, France; the Frankfurt Opera, Frankfurt, Germany; and the companies of Cincinnati, Miami, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. Concert performances include Pique Dame with the BSO under Seiji Ozawa. In addition to her private voice studio and master classes around the country and abroad, she continues her summer teaching at AIMS in Graz, Austria, and BASOTI, where she collaborated for many years with her late husband, the world-famous Wagnerian tenor and voice teacher Richard Cassilly.

Craig serves as an advisor on the boards of Opera Boston (Chairing the Board of Overseers), Boston Lyric Opera, Longwood Opera, and the Bel Canto Institute. She also is in demand as a competition adjudicator for organizations including the Metropolitan Opera, the Baltimore Opera, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Ms. Craig gained her first critical vocal acclaim as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Finals, from the Upper Midwest Region. Some of her students have gained recognition in this competition; others are singing with major opera companies in the United States and abroad. Patricia Craig has studied and collaborated with prominent artists including Donald Craig, Marenka Gurevitch, Magda Olivero, James de Blasis, Henry Lewis, Diane Richardson, Joan Dorneman, Martin Katz, Warren Jones, Jeffrey Tate and Warren Jones to name but a few.

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