PATRICIA HURD, soprano, has performed across the country in opera and musical theater roles to rave reviews, and appears on concert stages throughout the Midwest, with groups including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Orchestra. In a review of her role as Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and on national tour, the Boston Globe pronounced her "a clear-voiced knockout." A resident of Hinsdale, she performed with the West Suburban Symphony for the first time in October 2005.

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