Claudia Patacca
Dutch soprano Claudia Patacca is a professor of singing at ArtEZ, University of the Arts in Holland and is well known as a voice teacher. Her mission is to guide her students towards becoming complete singers who can navigate the world of singing with ease. With great passion and technical expertise, she helps her students discover the quality of their tone while encouraging them to follow their own artistic path.
Claudia graduated with honors from the conservatory in Enschede (Saxion Hogescholen, now ArtEZ), where she won the Tubantia Prize. She continued her studies at the International Opera Center Amsterdam. Her debut was with Poulenc’s Gloria during her studies at the Muziekcentrum in Enschede. Her opera debut took place at the Concertgebouw during the Holland Festival with Le Roi Arthus by Chausson conducted by Edo de Waart.
Claudia is currently a principal lecturer of classical singing at the ArtEZ Conservatory. She has provided masterclasses in various cities including Barcelona, Tallinn, Riga, Aarhus, and Malmö. From February 19 to 25, 2018, she will be providing a song recital and a masterclass at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar with pianist Marien van Nieukerken on the theme of female composers.
Claudia has built a flourishing concert career and has recently performed at the Valletta Baroque Festival in Malta, singing Handel’s Arminda abbandonata and Tellemann’s Der Weiberorden with Combattimento under the direction of David Prins. She has also performed opera arias from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, and Tosca under the direction of Jeppe Moulijn with the ONSO, Mahler 4 under the direction of Michael Rein and the Wunderhorn Ensemble, Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher under the direction of Jos Vermunt, a “Grand Tour” concert series with Combattimento, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony withthe Orchestra of the 18th Century conducted by Kenneth Montgomery, film music with Het Orkest van het Oosten, Bach’s Matthäus Passion with the Brabants Orkest, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with the Nieuwe Philharmonie, Poulenc’s Gloria, Golgotha, and Le Mystère de la Nativité by Frank Martin with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest.
She has performed at festivals such as Crete as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo and in Malta with performances of Telemann’s opera Pimpinone with the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. She also performed at the Valletta International Baroque Festival in Malta with Bach’s Kaffee Kantate and Francois Colin de Blamont’s La Toilette de Venus.
Claudia has performed as a soloist with the Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie, Opera Zuid, and other opera companies, including highlights such as the famous Zaterdag Matinees and Robeco Zomerconcerten, under the direction of conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Antonio Pappano, Ion Marin, Jan Willem de Vriend, Edo de Waart, Gerd Albrecht, Andreas Spering, and Johannes Leertouwer.
In addition to her work in opera, Claudia also has a deep love for lieder and chamber music. In November 2011, she released the special CD “Arthur Honegger: Mélodies et Chansons” featuring Honegger’s versatile complete song oeuvre. For the Brilliant Classics label, Claudia recorded four Mozart operas, including La Clemenza di Tito (Vitellia). She also appeared on Deutsche Grammophon’s recording of Bach’s Matthäuspassie with the Residentie Orkest.
Quotes from reviews
Messa da Requiem van Giuseppe Verdi
“Libera me.” It is the seventh and final part of Verdi’s requiem. In this apotheosis, everything seems to come together. Silence in an almost murmuring conversation between the choir and the movingly restrained soprano Claudia Patacca, who later displays all her dramatic potential. Toonkunstkoor Euterpe, Orkest van het Oosten olv Frank Deiman
A Child of our Time van Michael Tippett
“Claudia Patacca showed where the Concert Choir Haarlem still can grow. With a big dramatic voice and scorching intensity, she dominated the performance.”
Philharmonie Haarlem, Concertkoor Haarlem, Promenade Orkest
Matthäus Passion van JS Bach
In front of the altar stands a nearly German cast of soloists with mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen and soprano Claudia Patacca. Only Claudia Patacca unabashedly throws all emotions into the battle and knows how to keep it beautifully small in the gorgeous aria ‘Aus Liebe’.
Matthäus Passion JS Bach, Brabants Orkest, Sint- Janskathedraal Den Bosch olv Andreas Spering
| Education | |||
| Pedagogische Academie Hengelo | Netherlands | 1983-1986 | |
| Conservatory Enschede | Netherlands | 1987-1992 | |
| Teacher: Anne Haenen | |||
| International Opera Centre Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1992-1994 | |
| Teachers Anne Haenen | |||
| Meinard Kraak | Netherlands | 1997-2001 | |
| Henny Diemer | Netherlands | 2001-2004 | |
| Margreet Honig | Netherlands | 2009 | |
| Theaters/ Orkesten/ Contracten | |||
| The Dutch National Opera | Netherlands | guest | |
| Nationale Reisopera | Netherlands | guest | |
| Opera Zuid | Netherlands | guest | |
| La Monnaie | Begium | guest | |
| Theater der Stadt Halle | Deutschland | guest | |
| Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt | Deutschland | guest | |
| Hoofdstad Operette Amsterdam | Netherlands | guest | |
| Hollands Diep (Opera compagnie) | Netherlands | guest | |
| Frysk Festival (opera) | Netherlands | guest | |
| Opera in Groningen | Netherlands | guest | |
| Stichting Marzimino (opera) | Netherlands | guest | |
| Schattdecor Opera Festival | Deutschland | guest | |
| Matinee op de Vrije Zaterdag | Netherlands | guest | |
| Combattimento Consort Amsterdam | Netherlands | guest | |
| Radio Filharmonisch Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Radio Symfonie Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Radio Kamer Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Radio Philharmonisch Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Brabants Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Orkest van het Oosten | Netherlands | guest | |
| Noord Nederlands Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Limburgs Symfonie Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Netherlands | guest | |
| Nederlands Kamer Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Synfonietta Aurora | Netherlands | guest | |
| Residentie Orkest | Netherlands | guest | |
| Musica ad Rhenum | Netherlands/Ostria | guest | |
| L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra | Ostria | guest | |
| Kyoto Symfonic Orchestra | Japan | guest | |
| Nothern Symfonia of England | England | guest | |
| Essener Filharmoniker | Deutschland | guest | |
| Kammer Orchest Dortmund | Deutschland | guest | |
| Landes Jugend Blas Orchester | USA/Deutschland | guest | |
| cd recordings Art Songs Arthur Honegger | |||
| La Clemenza di Tito W.A. Mozart | Brilliant Classics | ||
| Ascanio in Alba W.A Mozart | Brilliant Classics | ||
| Il Re Pastore W.A. Mozart | Brilliant Classics | ||
| Il Sogno di Scipione W.A. Mozart | Brilliant Classics | ||
| Mattheuspassie J.S. Bach (in Dutch) | Deutsche Grammophon | ||
| Performed opera roles | |||
| Bellini, Vincenzo | Clotilde | Norma | staged |
| Britten, Benjamin | Second Niece | Peter Grimes | staged |
| Dragstra, Willem | Marthe | Marthe | staged |
| Glass, Philip | Thy | Achnaton | staged |
| Gluck, Willibald von | Euridice | Orfeo | staged |
| Hindemith, Paul | Ratasapa | Das Nusch-Nuschi | staged |
| Drittes Mädchen | Das Nusch Nuschi | staged | |
| Humperdinck, Engelbert | Sandmännchen | Hansel und Gretel | staged |
| Taumännchen | Hansel und Gretel | staged | |
| Gretel | Hansel und Gretel | staged | |
| Mozart, W.A. | Donna Anna | Don Giovanni | staged |
| 1e Dame | Die Zauberflote | staged | |
| Vitellia | La Clemenza di Tito | cd | |
| Tamiri | Il Re Pastore | cd | |
| Venus | Ascanio in Alba | cd | |
| Costanza | Il Sogno di Scipione | cd | |
| Silberklang | Der Schauspieldirector | staged | |
| Prokofjev, Sergei | Ninetta | l’Amour des trois Oranges | staged |
| Rossini, Giacomo | Azema | Semiramide | concert |
| Strauss, Johan | Rosalinde | Die Fledermaus | staged |
| Strauss, Richard | Königin Europa | Die Liebe der Danae | concert |
| Stravinsky, Igor | Ann Trulove | The Rake’s Progress | stage |
| Verdi, Giuseppe | Violetta | La Traviata | concert |
| Voce del Cielo | Don Carlos | concert | |
| Anna | Nabucco | staged | |
| Wagner, Richard | Blumenmädchen 1e Gr. 2e M. | Parsifal | staged |
| Ortlinde | Die Walküre | staged | |
| Weber, von | Fatime | Abu Hassan | staged |
olv Ger Vos
For the list of songs and oratorio, I would like to refer to the repertoire item.