coffee concert

11.00am Sunday, 3 June 2012

Yvonne Patrick - soprano

Lesley-Anne Sammons - piano

Born in South Derbyshire, Yvonne began her professional career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performing numerous roles including Elsie Yeomen of the Guard and Josephine HMS Pinafore.   She joined Glyndebourne in 1994 and made her debut with the Touring Company as Despina Cosi fan tutte.  In The Bartered Bride she sang the role of Esmeralda which included training to be a trapeze artist!  She sang Musetta La Boheme for Opera North and understudied Violetta La Traviata and Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte.  She has also worked for WNO, Garsington Opera, Kentish Opera, Opera Brava, Garden Opera, Swansea City Opera and Carl Rosa Opera Company.  Roles include Micaela Carmen, Pamina and First Lady The Magic Flute, title role of Madame Butterfly, Mimi La Boheme, Rosalinda and Adele Die Fledermaus, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Clorinda La Cenerentola and Alice Ford The Merry Wives of Windsor. She was soprano soloist in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in Nairobi Cathedral. 

Yvonne appeared as soloist in the Centenary Gala Concert of the Philadelphia Savoy Company, the oldest G & S society in America.  She is a regular guest performer on cruises, has appeared on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night and is an adjudicator for the British & International Federation of Music Festivals. 

Lesley-Anne has worked for all the British Opera Houses as repetiteur and coach. Her international career includes Il Teatro Massimo di Palermo and The Netherlands Opera (Salome, The Bible Pieces, Les Troyens, Norma and Don Carlos). 

She has conducted productions for Grange Park Opera, Pimlico Opera, Opera Holland Park and for the Longborough Festival. She has acted as coach and accompanist at The Dartington International Music Festival, West Dean College and the European Opera Centre.