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Patricia trained with teachers and
coaches of the old European singing schools and from the
Golden Age of Singing in America. Ultimately, she
credits her understanding of the vocal mechanism to
Natalie Limonick, who directed the UCLA Opera Workshop,
worked with such celebrated singers as Martial Singher
and Lotte Lehmann at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of
the West, was general director of the USC Opera Program,
and was president of the Opera Guild of Southern
California for a number of years. Working with
Natalie Limonick, Patricia learned foundation principles
of vocal technique which had been absent from her
University studies.
Patricia also studied technique and
repertoire with Esther Andreas (Metropolitan Opera),
Naomi Farr (New York City Opera), Nina Hinson (San
Francisco Opera), Marion Cooper, Dietrich Erbelding,
Charles Ross Perlee (conductor, San Francisco Opera and
Bremen Opera), and a number of other respected teachers
and coaches. Patricia’s mentors worked and trained with
the world’s greatest musicians. Among the artists in
this impressive teaching lineage were Arthur Schoenberg,
Francis Poulenc, Pierre Bernac and Nadia Boulanger.
Patricia Sang with the former Los
Angeles Music Center Opera Association, with Orange
County’s Opera Pacific and with the Los Angeles Master
Chorale under Roger Wagner. She performed in master
classes taught by Giorgio Tozzi (Metropolitan Opera),
Blanche Thebom (Metropolitan Opera) and Dorothy
Warenskjold (San Francisco Opera). She has recorded
background vocals for a number of artists.
Patricia Shanks Audio Clips
Circa mid-1980s
Long Time Ago
Una voce poco fa
Accompanied by the incomparable
Nick Ariondo
in 1990
Nick
performed onstage with Placido
Domingo in the recent LA Opera production of Il Postino.
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