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Patricia Lynn Racette (born 1965) is an American operatic soprano. A winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 1998, she has been a regular presence at major opera houses internationally. Racette has enjoyed long-term partnerships with the San Francisco Opera, where she has been a regular performer since 1989, and with the Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed annually since 1995. Also active on the concert stage, Racette has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 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''; Liu in ''Turandot'';〔(J. A. Van Sant, "Santa Fe: Second Thoughts", ''Opera Today'', August 23, 2005 from operatoday.com )〕 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. ==Early life and education== Racette was born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1965, the middle child of three siblings. Her father was a union representative and distributor of Pepsi products in southern New Hampshire. Her mother, now deceased, was a part-time bank employee and homemaker. At the age of seven she relocated with her family to Bedford, New Hampshire where she spent the rest of her youth. Both her parents were originally from Bedford. She began playing guitar at age 8. self-taught, she began singing along with the guitar which became the source of her interest in vocal music. She attended Manchester High School West, where she was very active in the school music program. Under the direction of Richard Maynard, she participated in regional chorale competitive festivals.〔(Manchester High School West website )〕 Upon graduation from high school in 1983, Racette matriculated at the University of North Texas with the intent of studying vocal jazz. She was told her voice was more amenable to opera performance than jazz, which initially upset her. However, she eventually found that she really enjoyed opera and enthusiastically pursued a vocal studies major. In her senior year she won first prize in the auditions for the Merola Opera Program, the training arm of the San Francisco Opera.〔Philip Gambone, ''Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans'' (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), 61〕 Her first opera performance was at a community college in Fort Worth, Texas in the title role in Carlisle Floyd's ''Susannah''.〔(Charlene Baldridge, "The reluctant diva: Lesbian opera singer Patricia Racette talks about life and love, onstage and off", ''Gay and Lesbian Times'', Issue #851, 15 April 2004 )〕 After graduating from college, Racette made her professional opera debut in 1988 in Giacomo Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'' with the San Francisco Western Opera Theater and traveled with the company for performances in 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." She made her debut with the San Francisco Opera in 1989 as the voice of the priestess in ''Aida''. She sang several more roles with the company while in the Merola program, including 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 made an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera which led to several more performances at the SFO over the next two years, including Micaëla in ''Carmen'', Dunyasha in ''War and Peace'', the First Lady in ''The Magic Flute'', and Mimì in ''La bohème''.〔(San Francisco Opera Archives )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patricia Racette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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