Austrian mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz is a graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

In 2020, she made her debut as Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Theater an der Wien, before joining the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera for two years. A member of the Ensemble from 2022 to 2024, she enjoyed success as Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Siébel (Faust), Orlovsky (Fledermaus), Silla (Palestrina), and as Zerlina in a new production of Don Giovanni under Philippe Jordan, for which she received the Austrian Music Theatre Prize.

Patricia Nolz made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin as Cherubino in spring 2024, before her debut at the Edinburg International Festival that summer. In January 2025, she made her house debut at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen as Rosina.

Next season, she will make further role debuts as Hänsel in a new production of Hänsel and Gretel at the Opéra National du Rhin and as Octavian (Rosenkavalier) under Christian Thielemann at the Berlin State Opera.

The mezzo-soprano has appeared in numerous concerts and is an accomplished lieder singer. Highlights of her career were Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. In summer 2024, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in a Mozart matinée under the direction of Ivor Bolton, where she returns in summer 2025 with Mozart’s Mass in C minor. In the 2024-2025 season, she sang Händel’s Messiah at the Vienna Musikverein and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Munich.

In the 2023-2024 season, she was offered a special platform at the Wiener Konzerthaus as a Great Talent with a series of concerts and recitals. Recent and upcoming recital highlights include appearances at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and London’s Wigmore Hall.