Patricia Racette

Quick Facts

Full Name	Patricia Racette
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Jun 23, 1965(1965-06-23)
Age	59
Birthplace	Manchester
Country	United States
Birth City	New Hampshire
Horoscope	Gemini

Patricia Racette Biography

Patricia Racette is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on June 23, 1965 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Racette was born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1965. She was the middle from three brothers. The father of Racette was a union rep as well as a distributor for Pepsi items in Southern New Hampshire. Her mother, who is now deceased was a part-time bank employee as well as a homemaker. When she was seven, she moved with their family members to Bedford, New Hampshire where she spent the remainder of her childhood. Both her parents came from Bedford. She started playing guitar at the age of 8. Self-taught, she began singing along to the guitar, which was the beginning of her passion for singing. She was a student at Manchester High School West, which was a very active participant in the school’s music program. Under the guidance by Richard Maynard, she participated in regional chorale contests.

In 1992, Racette joined the ranks of singers of the New York City Opera, making her debut singing the part of Musetta on La boheme. She sang a second part with that company, in spring 1993. Micaela as Carmen. In March of 1993 , she performed her Vancouver Opera debut as Blanche de la Force in the opera of Poulenc’s Carmelites and then later in the year it was her first appearance at The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. In addition, she continued to work to the San Francisco Opera, portraying Margherita in Mefistofele in 1994. She also she made her debut European performances that season at both the Vienna State Opera and the Welsh National Opera. While she received positive reviews for her performances, it wasn’t until she was awarded the Marian Anderson Award in 1994, an award that also helped propel career development for Sylvia McNair (1990), Denyce Graves (1991) as well as Nathan Gunn (1996), that attracted greater interest from the world of opera.

In 1996 Racette had a major critical success portraying the title role in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline for her debut at the Santa Fe Opera. She has since returned to that house frequently, portraying Violetta (1997), Blanche de la Force (1999), Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (2002), the title role in Káťa Kabanová (2003), Amelia Grimaldi in Simon Boccanegra (2004), and Liù in Turandot (2005). She most recently returned to the house to portray the role of Leslie Crosby in the premiere of Paul Moravec’s The Letter in 2009.

Racette has particularly excelled in Puccini and Verdi operas. Among her most well-known roles are Violetta in La traviata; Blanche de la Force and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites; both Mimì and Musetta in La bohème, the title heroine in Jenůfa; Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly; Alice Ford in Falstaff; Liù in Turandot; Desdemona in Otello; and Káťa in Káťa Kabanová. She performed in several world premieres, including the title role in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline (1996), and as Leslie Crosby in Paul Moravec’s The Letter (2009) at the Santa Fe Opera. She appeared in the premiere of Picker’s An American Tragedy (2005) at the Met, and portrayed Love Simpson in the premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree (2000) at the Houston Grand Opera.

Her debut came with her first opera company, San Francisco Opera in 1989 as the voice of the priestess in Aida. She performed in several other roles with the company singing in the Merola program as well as Alice Ford in Falstaff, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Sister Osmina in Suor Angelica, and Freia and Helmwige in The Ring Cycle. In 1991, she was appointed the Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera which resulted in many more shows at SFO in the following two years which included Micaela from Carmen, Dunyasha in War and Peace as well as the First Lady of The Magic Flute, and Mimi in La boheme.

Patricia Racette Net Worth

Patricia Racette is one of the richest Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Patricia Racette 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Patricia Lynn Racette (born 1965) is an American soprano operatic. Winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 1998 She has been a regular performer in major opera houses around the world. Racette has had long-lasting partnerships in The San Francisco Opera, where she is a regular performer since 1989, and also with the Metropolitan Opera, where she has been performing since 1995. In addition, she is active on the stage for concerts, Racette has appeared with several of the world’s top orchestras which include The Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She was also awarded the Award for Best Opera Recording for her performance in The Los Angeles Opera’s staging The Ghosts of Versailles at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.

When she graduated of High School in the year 1983 Racette was accepted into in the University of North Texas with the goal of studying jazz. Her voice was told that it is more suited for jazz than opera and this initially frightened her. However, she realized that she was a huge fan of opera, and decided to pursue the vocal studies program in the company of Pattye Johnstone. Her senior year she received the top prize in selection process for Merola Opera Program, the training part from the San Francisco Opera. Her first performance in the opera was at an institution of higher learning located in Fort Worth, Texas in the lead role in the film of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. After the college Racette became a professional debut as an opera singer in 1988. Giacomo Pucccini’s Madama Butterfly with the San Francisco Western Opera Theater and performed with the company in shows at New York City. Critic Bernard Holland said of her performance “Patricia Racette was an especially compelling actress as Cio-Cio San, and it was acting achieved through music – just as opera performance should be. Yet Miss Racette has a soprano voice that, while musically and technically reliable, is never terribly luxurious in sound.”

In 1994 Racette was offered a contract by the Metropolitan Opera to perform the role of Musetta in La bohème for performance in the spring of 1995. She made her debut at the house on March 4, 1995 with Mary Mills as Mimì, Luis Lima as Rodolfo, Roberto Frontali [it] as Marcello, and John Fiore conducting. Her performance was so well received she was immediately engaged to sing the role of Mimì in subsequent seasons, and has remained an annual performer at the Met since her debut. Her popularity at the house grew rapidly and she began to add more roles to her Met repertoire in the late 1990s, including Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Antonia/Stella in Les contes d’Hoffmann, and Violetta in La traviata. She took over the latter part in 1998 after the firing of Angela Gheorghiu and the cancellation of Renée Fleming. In the 2000s she has added the roles Alice Ford in Falstaff, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Elizabeth of Valois in Don Carlo, and Nedda in Pagliacci to her Met repertoire. In 2005 she notably portrayed Roberta Alden in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy. She most recently sang the role of Cio-Cio San at the house in 2012.

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Racette has been pictured on the cover of Opera News in June 2002, December 2005 and October 2009. She was also on the cover of the February 2006 edition of the Lesbian News and was featured in the September 2002 edition of The Advocate. She has been known to silence critics with her pointed responses. Although a perfectionist known for exacting standards, she dislikes analysis of opera in strictly technical terms, insisting on asking “But how does it make you feel?” She and her wife, fellow opera singer Beth Clayton, whom she met in 1997, travel about 10 months of the year. For the other two months, they live in a home which they built in the middle of the desert on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Patricia Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Patricia Racette celebrates birthday on June 23 of every year.