Soile Marja Isokoski (born 14 February 1957) is a Finnish

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. She is an

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singer as well as a concert and lieder singer.

Career

Isokoski was born in Posio, Finland. She graduated from the

Sibelius Academy The Sibelius Academy ( fi, Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia, sv, Sibelius-Akademin vid Konstuniversitetet) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It al ...

in Helsinki (a cantor-organist diploma, a singing teacher's degree and a singing diploma) and made her concert debut there in 1986. Isokoski won the Lappeenranta song competition in Finland (1987), the Elly Ameling Competition in the Netherlands (1988), and the Tokyo International Singing Competition (1990). In 1987 she was a finalist in the BBC Singer of the World competition in Cardiff. She worked first as a church musician in Northern Finland. In 1987 she was engaged as a soloist with the

Finnish National Opera The Finnish National Opera and Ballet ( fi, Suomen Kansallisooppera ja -baletti; sv, Finlands Nationalopera och -balett) is a Finnish opera company and ballet company based in Helsinki. It is headquartered in the Opera House on the coast of the T ...

and stayed there until 1994. Her first appearance there was as Mimi in

Puccini Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...

's ''

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'' in 1987. Isokoski has sung at all the leading opera houses in Europe, including the

Vienna State Opera The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August ...

Théâtre du Châtelet The Théâtre du Châtelet () is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. One of two theatres (the other being the Théâtre de la Ville) built on the site of a ''châtelet'', a ...

Opéra Bastille The Opéra Bastille (, "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's '' Grands Travaux'', it became the main facility of the Paris Nat ...

, La Scala,

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the D ...

Berlin State Opera The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...

Semperoper The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the ...

, the Hamburg State Opera, and the

Cologne Opera The Cologne Opera (German language, German: Oper der Stadt Köln or Oper Köln) refers both to the main opera house in Cologne, Germany and to its resident opera company. History of the company From the mid 18th century, opera was performed in th ...

. She made her début at the

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...

as the Countess in '' The Marriage of Figaro'' in 2002. ''

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'' wrote on 28 January 2002: "Ms. Isokoski... touched on the Countess' sense of abandonment by the Count without diminishing her regal bearing or the graceful humor she must contribute to the second act. And her dark, burnished soprano should make her a good addition to the Met roster." In 2007 Isokoski made her

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debut portraying the role of the Marschallin in ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...

.'' In 2010 she made her Los Angeles Opera debut as Elsa in ''

Lohengrin Lohengrin () is a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story, which first appears in Wolf ...

''. She has also appeared at many festivals such as

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Ama ...

Edinburgh International Festival The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from the international world of music (especially european classical music, classical music) and ...

, Chorégies d'Orange,

The Proms The BBC Proms or Proms, formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hal ...

in London,

Tanglewood Music Festival The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts. The festival consists of a series of concerts, including symphonic music, c ...

and Savonlinna Opera Festival. Isokoski's song repertoire is extensive. She has given recitals with her regular accompanist Marita Viitasalo all over the world, including in New York, Washington, D.C., Fort Lauderdale, Vienna, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Athens, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Tokyo. Isokoski has appeared with many renowned conductors including

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, Daniel Barenboim,

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, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis,

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Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...

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Okko Kamu Okko Tapani Kamu (born 7 March 1946, Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and violinist. Kamu was born into a family of musicians. His father played double bass in the Helsinki Philharmonic. He began violin studies at age two a ...

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, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle,

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, and

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Roles

* '' Così fan tutte'' "Fiordiligi" ( Mozart) * '' Don Giovanni'' "Donna Elvira" (Mozart) * '' The Marriage of Figaro'' "Countess " (Mozart) * ''

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a '' Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that in ...

'' "Pamina " (Mozart) * '' Otello'' "Desdemona" (

Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...

) * ''

Falstaff Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays '' Henry IV, Part 1'' and '' Part 2'', w ...

'' "Alice Ford" (Verdi) * ''

Simon Boccanegra ''Simon Boccanegra'' () is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play ''Simón Bocanegra'' (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play ''El trovador'' had b ...

'' "Amelia" (Verdi) * '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg '' "Eva" (

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

) * ''

'' "Elsa" (Wagner) * ''

Der Freischütz ' ( J. 277, Op. 77 ''The Marksman'' or ''The Freeshooter'') is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 18 ...

'' "Agathe" ( Weber) * ''

The Bartered Bride ''The Bartered Bride'' ( cz, Prodaná nevěsta, links=no, ''The Sold Bride'') is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina. The work is generally regarded as a major contribution towards the ...

'' "Marenka " ( Smetana) * ''

'' "Marschallin" ( Richard Strauss) * '' Capriccio'' "Countess" (Richard Strauss) * ''

Ariadne auf Naxos (''Ariadne on Naxos''), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera's unusual combination of elements of low commedia dell'arte with those of high opera seria points up one of the work's ...

'' "Ariadne" (Richard Strauss) * ''

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'' "Daphne" (Richard Strauss) * ''

The Tales of Hoffmann ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died i ...

'' "Antonia" ( Offenbach) * ''

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'' "Marguerite" (

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) * '' La Juive'' "Rachel" ( Halévy) * ''

'' "Mimi" (

) * ''

Turandot ''Turandot'' (; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. ''Turandot'' best-known aria is " Nessun dorma", ...

'' "Liù" (Puccini) * '' Carmen'' "Micaëla" (

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) * ''

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' (Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Евгений Оне́гин, ромáн в стихáх, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn, r=Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh) is ...

'' "Tatjana" (

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

) * ''

Peter Grimes ''Peter Grimes'', Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem '' The Borough''. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional ...

'' "Ellen Orford" (

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) * ''

Dialogues of the Carmelites ' (''Dialogues of the Carmelites''), FP 159, is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. The composer's second opera, Poulenc wrote the ...

'' "Madame Lidoine" ( Poulenc)

Recordings

CD * Christmas Carols Finlandia Records 1989 * Schubert: Lieder Finlandia 1994 * Schumann : Liederkreis Op. 39, Frauenliebe und –leben Finlandia 1995 * My World of Songs, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Grieg & al. Finlandia 1999 * Finnish Songs Ondine 2000 * R. Strauss: Orchestral Songs Ondine 2002 * Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch with Bo Skovhus Ondine 2002 * Artist Portrait Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Sibelius Warner Classics 2002 * Finnish sacred Songs Ondine 2003 * Mozart: Arias Ondine 2004 * Hymns in Finnish Ondine 2005 * Sibelius: '' Luonnotar'', Orchestral Songs Ondine 2006 * Songs by Sibelius, Strauss and Berg Wigmore Hall Live A BBC Recording 2006 * Christmas Carols with YL Male Voice Choir Ondine 2006 * Scene d'amore: Scenes and arias by Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Gounod, Puccini, Verdi Ondine 2008 * Hindemith: Das Marienleben Ondine 2009 * Richard Strauss: Lieder Ondine 2011 * Richard Strauss: Three Hymns, Opera arias Ondine 2012 * Oi jouluyö, Christmas Carols Ondine 2014 * Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Duparc: Songs Ondine 2015 ---- *Rautavaara: Cantos, Die Liebenden etc. Finlandia 1989 *Mendelssohn: Elias, op. 70 Harmonia Mundi 1993 *Mahler: Symphonie 4 Symphonie für Sopran und Orcheste 1993 *Mozart: Così fan tutte Accent 1993 *Mendelssohn: Paulus, op. 36 Opus III 1995 *Sibelius: Kullervo Op 7 Chandos 1995 *Gothoni: Der Ochs und sein Hirte Ondine 1995 *Fux: La deposizione dalla croce Novalis 1995 *Schubert: Messe Es-dur D 959 Berlin Classics 1996 *Kokkonen: Requiem BIS 1996 *Sibelius: Finlandia / Luonnotar etc. Deutsche Grammophon 1996 *Mahler: Symphonie 2 in C minor Fonit Cetra Records 1997 *Schubert: Die Verschworenen Opus III 1997 *Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45 Opus III 1997 *Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg EMI 1997 *Mozart: Don Giovanni Deutsche Grammophon 1998 *Schubert: Missa Solemnis, Stabat Mater, Salve Regina Ondine 1999 *Mendelssohn: "Lobgesang" Eine Symphonie Cantate No. 2 Opus III 2000 *Beethoven: Fidelio 2000 *Beethoven: Symphonie No 9 Teldec 2000 *Sibelius: Conferment and Coronation Cantatas etc. Ondine 2000 *Zemlinsky: Sämtliche Orchesterlieder EMI 2000 *Live from the Kuhmo Festival, A Century of Finnish Chamber Music Ondine 2002 *Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie EMI 2002 *Halévy: La Juive RCA 2002 *Pacius: Die Loreley BIS 2003 * Graun: ''

Der Tod Jesu ''Der Tod Jesu'' (''The Death of Jesus'') is an oratorio libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler. In its setting by Carl Heinrich Graun in 1755, it was the most often performed Passion of the 18th century in Germany. The poem is part of the '' Empfin ...

'' Querstand 2004 *Nielsen: Complete Symphonies Deutsche Grammophon 2005 *Mahler: Symphony No. 8 EMI 2005 *Wiener Opernfest 2005 Orfeo 2005 *13. Festliche Operngala für die Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung Sony BMG 2007 *Sibelius: Kullervo Ondine 2008 * Schönberg: Gurrelieder Signum 2009 * Gounod: Faust Orfeo 2010 DVD * Vienna State Opera gala concert – 50th anniversary of the reopening Live: Vienna, 5 November 2005 * 13. Festliche Operngala für die AIDS-Stiftung. Live-Aufnahme aus der Deutschen Oper Berlin vom 11. November 2006 * Ioan Holender Farewell Concert: Live From the Vienna State Opera 2010 * Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites BelAir Classiques 2011

Awards and recognitions

* 1st prize in the Lappeenranta song competition 1987 * BBC Singer of the World competition 1987 finalist * 1st prize in the Elly Ameling Competition 1988 * 1st prize in the Tokyo International Singing Competition 1990 * The Pro Finlandia medal in honour of her notable contribution to Finnish music 2002 * Gramophone Editors's Choice Award, Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss (Ondine) 2002 * The State Prize for Music 2005 * Gramophone Award nomination for Songs by Sibelius, Strauss and Berg 2006 *

MIDEM Midem is the acronym for Marché International du Disque et de l'Édition Musicale, which is organised annually in and around the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. The trade show, organized by Reed MIDEM, a subsidiary of Re ...

Classical Award, Sibelius: Luonnotar Orchestral Songs (Ondine) 2007 * BBC Music Magazine Award, Disc of the Year and Vocal Award, Sibelius: Luonnotar Orchestral Songs (Ondine) 2007 * The Sibelius Medal of the

Sibelius Society of Finland The Sibelius Society of Finland ( fi, Sibelius-Seura ry, sv, Sibelius-Samfundet rf) is a society in Finland dedicated to the music of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It was set up in December 1957. The Society and the Ministry of Education o ...

2007 * The title of

Kammersänger Kammersänger (male) or Kammersängerin (female), abbreviated Ks. or KS, is a German honorific title for distinguished singers of opera and classical music. It literally means "chamber singer". Historically, the title was bestowed by princes or ...

in in Vienna 2008 * Diapason d’Or 2008, Sibelius: Kullervo with YL Male Voice Choir, Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam,

Tommi Hakala Tommi Hakala (born 9 August 1970) is a Finnish operatic baritone and winner of the 2003 BBC Singer of the World Competition in Cardiff. He was born in Riihimäki, Finland. Sources *BBC News BBC News is an operational business division o ...

* Prix Caecilia 2009, Hindemith: Das Marienleben * Honorary Doctorate from the University of Helsinki 2011

References

Sources

* Hillila, Ruth-Esther and Hong, Barbara Blanchard. 1997. Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland, p. 171. Greenwood Publishing Group. * International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003, Europa Publications. L180 * Opera, June 2006 * Who's Who in Finland 2007, Otava 2006. * Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press 2007.
Finnish Music Information Centre

External links

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