For the past thirty-five years, Ms. McCaffrey’s students have sung in all of the major opera houses, festivals and concert halls in the world including:

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The Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Berlin Staatsoper, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Berlin Komische Oper, Bayerisches Staatsoper, Hamburg Staatsoper, Zurich Opera, Paris Bastille and Chatelet, Barcelona Liceu, La Scala, Carnegie Hall, The BBC Proms, The Hollywood Bowl, The Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival.

Her students have been chosen numerous times as winners and finalists of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, The Richard Tucker Foundation, The George London Foundation, The Gerda Lissner Foundation, Marian Anderson Award, The Loren Zachary Competition, Operalia, The Queen Sonja Competition, The Queen Elisabeth Competition, The Montreal International Opera and Art Song Competition, Thomas Quasthoff’s Das Lied Competition as well as the Cardiff Singer of the World.

They have also distinguished themselves as recording artists with Deutsche Grammaphon, Sony, EMI, Arabesque and others and have won numerous Grammys in opera, art-song and other genres.

In addition to teaching a classical music technique for singing, Trish McCaffrey also teaches Broadway and Pop performers who appear on Broadway, in Motion Pictures, Television and Commercials.  She has also prepared numerous students for teaching positions at many colleges, conservatories and universities in the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Mezzo-Soprano Patricia McCaffrey has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Miami Opera, Zürich Opera, The Wexford Festival, Starlight Musicals and other venues throughout the world. She is most noted for her portrayals of the title role in CARMEN, Eboli in DON CARLO, Brangäne in TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, Santuzza in CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, Octavian in DER ROSENKAVALIER, the Composer in ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, Amneris in AIDA, Charlotte in WERTHER and Herodias in SALOME.

She has served on the voice faculties of The Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Arizona State University, University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and The Hartt School of Music and has taught at the young artist programs and studios of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Program, Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Program, The Santa Fe Opera, Ravinia Steans Institute, Berlin Staatsoper, the New Israeli Opera Studio, Intermezzo Foundation in Hartford, Connecticut and Brugge, Belgium, LidalNorth in Oslo, Norway, The VoicExperience Foundation in Disney, Tampa and Savannah, International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy as well as the Israeli Vocal Arts Institute.

Semi-retired, Trish McCaffrey currently maintains a private voice studio in New York City.