Patricia Bardon

"Reprising the role of Cornelia, Patricia Bardon is peerless. She portrays grief with great dignity, maintaining a beautiful vocal thread whilst her dynamic control is superb." (Opera Britannia, April 2013, on Giulio Cesare at The Metropolitan Opera)

"Mezzo-soprano Patricia Bardon delivered her mournful odes with fierce intelligence." (Roméo et Juliette - OAE - The Times - February 2012)

"The Wanderer’s subsequent exchange with Erda, the voluptuous-voiced Patricia Bardon, in a costume of black mirrors and a long white wig, had a potent, intimate chemistry." (Siegfried - Metropolitan Opera - The Wall Street Journal - November 2011)

"Patricia Bardon has the best physical shape for the damanding and challenging title role, she is the almost lost dream of a true contralto and boasts a powerful level. Simply amazing!" (Rinaldo - Oper Köln - Opernetz.de - April 2011)

"Patricia Bardon once again commands the stage with her impersonation of Baba the Turk..." (Evening Standard, January 2010)

"...in Patricia Bardon's towering performance as Maurya, the sung and the almost spoken are indivisible. One really feels this woman's heroic resistance, the sheer effort of staying strong and upright- so that when she does finally take her last son's lifeless naked body in her arms, the moment is overwhelming...a lamentation of extraordinary beauty which Bardon sings as if finally released from her grief and somehow reborn." (The Independent, December 2008)

"Patricia Bardon’s lush-toned Malcolm Graeme — the heroine’s true love — is the next best thing I’ve heard in this opera to the immortal Marilyn Horne..." (The Times)