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Patricia Craig
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Renowned American operatic soprano Patricia Craig made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1978 as Marenka in The Bartered Bride with James Levine conducting, and has performed leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Dialogues of the Carmelites, La Bohème and Mahagonny. Her performing career spans over three decades of major roles in the world’s leading opera houses, specializing in Puccini and Verdi heroines. Credits include performances with the 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; Frankfurt Opera, Frankfurt, Germany; and the companies of Cincinnati, Miami, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. A faculty member of the New England Conservatory from 1990 to 2010, Craig also teaches at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute. She received a B.S. from Ithaca College, pursued postgraduate studies in opera at the Manhattan School of Music and gained her first critical acclaim as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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