Patricia Adkins Chiti (died 12 June 2018) was a British-Italian mezzo-soprano, musicologist, and advocate for women in classical music.
She completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, where she made her operatic debut in 1972.
[1] From 1980, Adkins Chiti conducted festivals, concert series and symposiums in Italy and abroad, and worked as an expert in cultural policy with governments and universities in Europe, USA and Asia.
She was a member of the Italian Commission for Equal Opportunities, and in March 1998, by invitation from the Director General of UNESCO, she presented a series of proposals in favour of women at the World Intergovernmental Conference for Cultural Policies for Development in Stockholm.
Beginning in 2000, she collected second-hand music, books and CDs, and sent them to many parts of the world, especially to Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.