About the artist
Patrice Burgstahler, lyric coloratura soprano
Lyric coloratura soprano Patrice Burgstahler was brought to the attention of the music world with a critically acclaimed portrayal of Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She has gone on to perform leading roles in operas of Donizetti, Mozart and Verdi throughout the United States and Europe.
Ms. Burgstahler credentials include a Bachelor's Degree of Music in Vocal Performance from University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master's Degree of Music in Vocal Performance at Boston Conservatory of Music under renowned opera conductor and diction expert, John Moriarty. She is currently completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and secondary emphasis in Opera Direction at the University of Northern Colorado.
She was the Rocky Mountain Regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions competing in New York City semi-finals, judged by a panel which included Kurt Adler, Dame Joan Sutherland and John Reardon, a Regional San Francisco Opera Auditions winner and won both district and regional CO/WY NATS; National Association of Teachers of Singing undergraduate women's division 1st place winner. She has subsequently received grants from Palm Springs Opera Guild, the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council.
She has appeared with Boston Opera, Denver Opera, and the New Jersey Opera, singing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Musetta in La Bohème, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote. Among other performances, Ms. Burgstahler has sung Madame Latour in Le Postillon de Longjumeau in New York, Valencienne in The Merry Widow with the Denver Opera Company, and Adina in L'Elisir d'amore and Gilda in Rigoletto with New Jersey Opera.
Ms. Burgstahler has sung concert tours worldwide in Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the Scandinavian countries,
as well as Russia, Poland and the former Yugoslavia, making her European concert debut in Austria's Grazer Dom in Franz Schubert's Mass in B-Minor launching her international career.
The California native has performed in chorale concerts both internationally and throughout the United States; Arthur Honneger's King David, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and numerous other oratorio works. Ms. Burgstahler has sung Mozart's Requiem in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC with Mount Hollyoke College, Wellesley and Columbia University choirs, at Wellesley College in Massachusetts with Columbia University men's choir and Wellesley women's choir to name a few. As well as recital and concert dates in New York, Boston, Denver, Ms. Burgstahler
is currently making symphony appearances in the USA.
Ms. Burgstahler has recorded a CD on the SYRINX label, which includes the only recording of Colorado composer, Jean Berger's Villanescas, Spanish song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra. Ms. Burgstahler has an extensive and impressive performing history in art song literature singing numerous recitals, both nationally and internationally, in classical styles from Baroque to 20th century Contemporary music. She has sung recitals featuring American, British, French, German and Spanish composers in Hamburg's concert halls, the Hamburg American consulate several times and performed in concert with Ian McEwan at the British consulate during the British Shakespeare Prize winners concert, Mr. McEwan's initial reading of Atonement.
The versatile singer performed the role of Carlotta in Andrew Lloyd Webber's German production of Phantom of the Opera for ten years, singing multiple performances in German at Hamburg's Neue Flora Theatre 3000 seat auditorium; hired from 800 in New York City auditions, she got the job.
For ten years she was based in Hamburg, Germany, and upon her return to the United States joined the music department at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, to teach applied voice, vocal diction and other related voice classes, before returning to Colorado. Ms. Burgstahler was one of five vocalists accepted each year into Columbia University's, Doctoral Cohort Program, and recently spent time in NYC working on her doctorate.
Juried presentations on her dissertation topic “Opera Divas Gone Mad” were performed in collaboration with New York accompanist, Bill Lewis at “Creativity & Madness – Psychological Studies of Art & Artists” conferences in Maui, Hawaii
and Santa Fe, New Mexico. These highly successful presentations for the mental medical community on her dissertation subject will be forthcoming, as
Ms. Burgstahler has been asked back for conferences in Tuscany, Italy and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The neo-classical one-act chamber opera by Jean Francaix, "Paris, a nous deux",
sung in French with four saxophones, was Patrice Burgstahler’s opera directing debut while a doctoral candidate at University of Northern Colorado. She is currently completing a terminal degree in Vocal Performance - secondary emphasis in Opera Direction at UNC, graduating in summer 2010. She also directed full-length opera scenes of La Rondine by Puccini and Cendrillon by Massenet.
For the "Cinderella Project", she made a contact list within a 100 miles radius of University of Northern Colorado for developing audiences for the Opera Department & Musical Theatre Department. These scenes from opera to musical theater on the Cinderella theme, sung in French and English, brought a massive turnout of classical music lovers from the community.
Ms. Burgstahler credentials include a Bachelor's Degree of Music in Vocal Performance from University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master's Degree of Music in Vocal Performance at Boston Conservatory of Music under renowned opera conductor and diction expert, John Moriarty. She is currently completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and secondary emphasis in Opera Direction at the University of Northern Colorado.
She was the Rocky Mountain Regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions competing in New York City semi-finals, judged by a panel which included Kurt Adler, Dame Joan Sutherland and John Reardon, a Regional San Francisco Opera Auditions winner and won both district and regional CO/WY NATS; National Association of Teachers of Singing undergraduate women's division 1st place winner. She has subsequently received grants from Palm Springs Opera Guild, the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council.
She has appeared with Boston Opera, Denver Opera, and the New Jersey Opera, singing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Musetta in La Bohème, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote. Among other performances, Ms. Burgstahler has sung Madame Latour in Le Postillon de Longjumeau in New York, Valencienne in The Merry Widow with the Denver Opera Company, and Adina in L'Elisir d'amore and Gilda in Rigoletto with New Jersey Opera.
Ms. Burgstahler has sung concert tours worldwide in Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the Scandinavian countries,
as well as Russia, Poland and the former Yugoslavia, making her European concert debut in Austria's Grazer Dom in Franz Schubert's Mass in B-Minor launching her international career.
The California native has performed in chorale concerts both internationally and throughout the United States; Arthur Honneger's King David, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and numerous other oratorio works. Ms. Burgstahler has sung Mozart's Requiem in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC with Mount Hollyoke College, Wellesley and Columbia University choirs, at Wellesley College in Massachusetts with Columbia University men's choir and Wellesley women's choir to name a few. As well as recital and concert dates in New York, Boston, Denver, Ms. Burgstahler
is currently making symphony appearances in the USA.
Ms. Burgstahler has recorded a CD on the SYRINX label, which includes the only recording of Colorado composer, Jean Berger's Villanescas, Spanish song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra. Ms. Burgstahler has an extensive and impressive performing history in art song literature singing numerous recitals, both nationally and internationally, in classical styles from Baroque to 20th century Contemporary music. She has sung recitals featuring American, British, French, German and Spanish composers in Hamburg's concert halls, the Hamburg American consulate several times and performed in concert with Ian McEwan at the British consulate during the British Shakespeare Prize winners concert, Mr. McEwan's initial reading of Atonement.
The versatile singer performed the role of Carlotta in Andrew Lloyd Webber's German production of Phantom of the Opera for ten years, singing multiple performances in German at Hamburg's Neue Flora Theatre 3000 seat auditorium; hired from 800 in New York City auditions, she got the job.
For ten years she was based in Hamburg, Germany, and upon her return to the United States joined the music department at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, to teach applied voice, vocal diction and other related voice classes, before returning to Colorado. Ms. Burgstahler was one of five vocalists accepted each year into Columbia University's, Doctoral Cohort Program, and recently spent time in NYC working on her doctorate.
Juried presentations on her dissertation topic “Opera Divas Gone Mad” were performed in collaboration with New York accompanist, Bill Lewis at “Creativity & Madness – Psychological Studies of Art & Artists” conferences in Maui, Hawaii
and Santa Fe, New Mexico. These highly successful presentations for the mental medical community on her dissertation subject will be forthcoming, as
Ms. Burgstahler has been asked back for conferences in Tuscany, Italy and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The neo-classical one-act chamber opera by Jean Francaix, "Paris, a nous deux",
sung in French with four saxophones, was Patrice Burgstahler’s opera directing debut while a doctoral candidate at University of Northern Colorado. She is currently completing a terminal degree in Vocal Performance - secondary emphasis in Opera Direction at UNC, graduating in summer 2010. She also directed full-length opera scenes of La Rondine by Puccini and Cendrillon by Massenet.
For the "Cinderella Project", she made a contact list within a 100 miles radius of University of Northern Colorado for developing audiences for the Opera Department & Musical Theatre Department. These scenes from opera to musical theater on the Cinderella theme, sung in French and English, brought a massive turnout of classical music lovers from the community.