“Honeyed Baritone” (Opera Today) Patrick Wilhelm has an instrument that has been praised as “ardent” and “burnished” (Broad Street Review) and for having a “distinctive timbre” (Philadelphia Magazine), and a “gorgeously plush color” (Parterre Box).
In 2024-25, Patrick joined Virginia Opera as a Herndon Foundation Emerging Artist for their fiftieth anniversary season, and prior to that was Gerdine Young Artist at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Before working with OTSL, he returned to his alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music, for a reading/recording of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Among many highlights of Patrick’s studies at Curtis are a film adaptation of Marc Blitzstein’s Triple-Sec in the role of Hopkins; Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte; Paul in Rene Orth’s Empty the House; and a concert appearance of Mozart opera ensembles under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Patrick’s passion for art song and concert repertoire stems from his formative years collaborating with pianist Mikael Eliasen, as well as summers spent singing in masterclasses and studying under Dalton Baldwin at Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg and L’Académie Internationale d’Été de Nice. He has performed a diverse array of new music and old gems alike, both in Philadelphia and throughout the United States with Curtis On Tour.
October 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
America Sings a Siren’s Song: Cutting Edge Concerts and the Cygnus Ensemble