Patricia Rozario BiographyThe soprano Patricia Rozario was born and educated in Bombay, India. At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, to which she won a scholarship to study under Walter Grüner, she was awarded the Maggie Teyte Prize and the Gold Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. After postgraduate study at the National Opera Studio in London under Vera Rozsa, she undertook further studies in Munich under Hans Hotter and in Paris under Pierre Bernac.
On the operatic stage in Great Britain, Patricia Rozario has appeared with English National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and at the Garsington Festival in operas by Beethoven, Belisa, Gluck, Haydn, Massenet, Monteverdi, Mozart and Purcell, and at the Aldeburgh and Almeida Festivals in operas by Casken and Tavener. On the operatic stage abroad, she has appeared in Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Frankfurt, Ghent, Innsbruck, Lyons and Stuttgart in operas by Cimarosa, Gluck, Handel and Mozart. With the late Sir Georg Solti, Patricia Rozario toured the major European capital cities in Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro. On the concert platform, Patricia Rozario is an outstanding figure. In Great Britain, she has made regular appearances with The Songmakers Almanac from its inception and has appeared in recital and concert at the Aldeburgh, Bath, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Harrogate and City of London Festivals. She was part of Hermann Preys Schubertiade on Londons South Bank, where she appeared in Elvis Costellos Meltdown. Patricia Rozario has appeared in recital at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and has appeared many times at the BBC Promenade Concerts. Abroad, she has made numerous concert appearances in, amongst other cities, Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Halle, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Cologne, Leipzig, Madrid, New York, Paris, Riga, Rouen, Strasbourg, Vienna, Winterthur and Zürich. Her recordings include major works by Britten, Canteloube, Casken, Haydn, Respighi, Satie, Tavener and Vaughan Williams. For her services to music, Patricia Rozario was awarded the OBE in the United Kingdom New Years Honours List in 2001.