Stage & Artistic Director
Former artistic director of the Monte Carlo Opera for several years, as well as renowned director, Patricia Panton has worked with the greatest artists and conductors in the Lyric world. After studying music in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduating from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, followed by a career as a lyrical singer across Europe, Patricia Panton decided to devote her artistic efforts exclusively to directing. As Assistant to Margarita Wallmann (first female director at L'opéra) for more than 12 years, she has worked on productions for houses such as the Paris Opera, the Covent Garden and the Liceu Barcelona with renown artists such as Placido Domingo, Seiji Ozawa, Monserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, Raina Kabaivanska, Katia Ricciarelli et Renato Bruson. The success of her debut as stage director in Un Ballo in maschera (Capitole de Toulouse) followed by Traviata in Geneva in Italie, acclamed by the critics as presenting a "cinematographic dimension ». Since she has been back to the Capitole of Toulouse, Toulon & Marseille Opera, Teatro Vittotio Emanuele di Messina, au Teatro Sociale di Mantova, the Puccini Festival det Torre de Lago, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Giglio di Lucca, and the Opera di Cagliari (Sardegnia). In June 1992, Ms. Panton inaugurated the Athenian Festival at L’ Herode Atticus with a new production by Nabucco, and was invited back later in the season to direct the productions of Otello and Carmen.Among other productions:: La Bohème (Avenche, Switzerland; Aspendos Festival and Izmir, Tirkey), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Teatro Ariston di San Remo; Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Italy), Madama Butterfly (Puccini Festival, Toore del Lago), Faust (Opera Grand Rapida, USA; Opéra de Marseille), Manon (Palm Beach Opera, USA), Macbeth (Teatro Politeama di Lecce, Italy), Il Filosofo di campagna (Strasbourg), Otello, La Sonnambula (Cagliari), Adriana Lecouvreur (Capitole de Toulouse; Teatro Vittorio Emanuele di Messina) and Soirée Offenbach (Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Opéra de Marseille
