Patricia Bardon makes her LA Opera debut as Andronico in Tamerlano (December 2009).

Dublin-born Patricia Bardon studied with Veronica Dunne at the city's College of Music and came to early prominence as the youngest ever prize winner in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Patricia Bardon's unique vocal range and versatility have allowed her to explore a diverse operatic repertoire spanning Monteverdi, Handel and Gluck through Rossini, Bizet and Verdi and she has become established internationally as an operatic and concert force, working with many of today's pre-eminent conductors including Mehta, Haitink, Abbado, Rizzi, Pappano, Jacobs, Eschenbach and Christie.

Highlights include Tancredi and Arsace in Semiramide at La Fenice in Venice; La Cenerentola at La Monnaie and in Lausanne; Carmen at Hamburg's Staatsoper, for WNO and Scottish Opera; Bizet's Djamileh with Opera North; Anna in Les Troyens in Florence as part of the Maggio Musicale as well as Penelope in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria in Athens, Amsterdam and at Berlin's Staatsoper, Maria in Mose in Egitto, Edwige in William Tell and Maddalena in Rigoletto at the ROH Covent Garden, Smeaton in Anna Bolena at San Francisco Opera, Azucena in Il Trovatore at Welsh National Opera, and Erda in both Das Rheingold and Siegfried in ENO's Ring cycle.

The 2005/06 season saw Patricia's house debut at the Opera National de Paris in the title role of Kaija Saariaho's Adriana Mater, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and in a new production by Peter Sellars, and last season her highly-acclaimed return to Covent Garden as Baba the Turk in Robert Lepage's production of The Rake's Progress.

Noted as one of Europe's finest Handelians, Patricia Bardon's most frequently requested roles include Orlando, Giulio Cesare, Ruggiero, Andronico, Cornelia, Xerxes, Juno and Rosmira which have taken her to stages in New York, Paris, Lyon, Antwerp, Munich, Chicago, Glyndebourne Festival, Barcelona, Amsterdam, London and Madrid. Patricia Bardon's interpretation of Cornelia in David McVicar's Giulio Cesare for the Glyndebourne Festival, as well her Amastre in Xerxes from the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, are both available on DVD.

Patricia Bardon's 2006/07 debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera as Cornelia was met with unanimous critical and audience acclaim, as was her debut in 2007/08 at Washington's National Opera as Andronico in Handel's Tamerlano, sharing the stage with Plácido Domingo.

Equally successful as a concert singer Patricia has a diverse repertoire including works by Mahler, Rossini, Verdi and Szymanowski as well as Bach, Vivaldi and Handel and she has performed with such esteemed orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orkest, Orchestre de Paris, London's Philharmonia, Les Arts Florissants and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan. In 2007 Patricia appeared at the First Night of the Proms, broadcast live on TV and Radio, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiri Behlolavek.

Patricia Bardon's discography to date includes Orlando (Erato), Elijah (Decca), Eugene Onegin (EMI), Rigoletto (Teldec), Carmen and Flying Dutchman (Chandos), Messiah (Harmonia Mundi), and most recently Arianna et Barbe Bleue (Telarc) and Malcolm in Rossini's Donna del Lago recorded live from Edinburgh's International Festival (Opera Rara).

In the current season Patricia Bardon will return to English National Opera for new productions of both Handel's Partenope and Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea and make her Vienna debut in the new Pierre Audi production of Partenope at the city's historic Theater an der Wien, conducted by Christoph Rousset. In addition to concert projects in Spain and Russia, Patricia Bardon will return to the Glyndebourne to repeat her success as Cornelia, and perform and record Rossini's Ermione in London for Opera Rara.