The young Austrian mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz completed her training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Florian Boesch and Claudia Visca. In 2020 she made a highly acclaimed debut at the Theater an der Wien as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.
Following two years at the opera studio of the Vienna State Opera, where she sang Cherubino and Zerlina (Don Giovanni), she has been an ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera since the 2022/23 season. Her roles there have included La Musica and La Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung and Page in Strauss’s Salome.
In the 2023/24 season she appeared at the Vienna State Opera as Zerlina and Cherubino, and also as Annio (La clemenza di Tito) under Pablo Heras-Casado, as Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) and as Siébel (Faust). Early in 2024 she made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin as Cherubino.
As a concert soloist her appearances have included Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Karina Canellakis, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Bach’s St John Passion with Concentus Musicus Wien at the Vienna Musikverein, and performances at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Grafenegg Festival.
In 2023/24 she was offered a special platform at the Vienna Konzerthaus as a ‘Great Talent’. She also performed in Mendelssohn’s Paulus with the Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons and in Schubert’s Mass in A flat major with Concentus Musicus Wien under Stefan Gottfried at the Vienna Musikverein. She makes her Salzburg Festival debut in summer 2024.
Patricia Nolz is a winner of the Casinos Austria Rising Star Award 2019 and a prize-winner of competitions such as the ÖJAB Music Competition and the Osaka Music Competition in Japan. She received the Austrian Music Theatre Award for her performance as Zerlina at the Vienna State Opera under Philippe Jordan.
