Sorin Coliban (born 1976 in Bucharest) is a

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singer with an international career. His voice range is bass– baritone. He is known for the volume and projection of his voice, both of which help him to sing both bass and baritone roles. He is one of the few singers to have performed (in the contemporary opera Macbeth by

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in Luzern in 2004) with two different voices in the same performance: bass-baritone and countertenor.

Biography

Early career

Sorin Coliban graduated in opera, lied and vocal symphonic singing sections at the Academy of Music in Bucharest and also attended classes headed by well known Romanian soprano

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twice in 1994 and 2012. He improved his Rossini stile and technique of singing at the Accademia Rossiniana by the well-known Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy under the guidance of famous conductor

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in the year 2001. Early in his career he performed at venues such as the

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in London, L'Opéra Bastille in Paris, Palais Garnier, the

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in Paris, the

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in San Francisco, the

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and the

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. His career gained momentum after winning the singing competition "The quest for Don Giovanni" in

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in 1994. The prize for winning the competition was the chance to perform the title role in ''Don Giovanni'' by Mozart, in a unique production directed by the famous Italian bass

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, costume designer was the former Christian Dior Fashion House designer Marc Bohan at Athens Megaro-Mousikis in March 1996.

International recognition

After this debut in Athens, he started immediately to develop his international singing career. At the ROH Covent Garden (''La Bohème''/Colline 1996, ''Rigoletto''/Monterone 1997 and ''Roméo et Juliette''/Capulet 2000), in Paris at L'Opéra Bastille (''Carmen''/Zuniga 1997, ''La Cenerentola''/Alidoro 1998, ''La Bohème''/Colline 1999) and the Théâtre du Châtelet, in San Francisco (''Lucia di Lammermoor'', Raimondo 1999), in Switzerland at St. Gallen (''Simone Boccanegra''/Fiesco), Klagenfurt (Italian version of ''Don Carlo''/Filippo II 2001), Luzern (2002-2004: ''Mosé''/Title part, Macbeth in ''Macbeth'' by Salvatore Sciarrino, ''Der fliegende Holländer''/Holländer, ''Zauberflöte''/Sarastro), Mozart Festival in La Coruña in Spain (''Don Giovanni''/Commendatore, 2005, ''Die Zauberflöte''/Sarastro, 2007) at Wiener Festwochen and the Staatsoper and Volksoper in Vienna and the Theater Basel (frz./Don Carlos/Grand Inquisiteur 2007) and many others. Besides the opera repertoire he is a demanded soloist in vocal symphonic concerts with works by Verdi, Bach, Mahler and Mendelssohn, and in song recitals (Vienna, Bucharest and Baden).

Recordings

Together with

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, and

, Coliban was cast for the movie production of ''Tosca''; an opera movie released internationally in 2002 at the film festival in

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. In 2009 he appeared on the

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of the Karol Szymanowski opera ''

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'' in the staging of the British director

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recorded live at the

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in Austri

Sorin Coliban also took part in audio and video opera recordings with EMI classics and NAXOS and in the "Arias" (June 2012) recital CD of bass baritone Erwin Schrott by Sony Classica

and in 2017 he appeared as Sparafucile on the DVD of ''

Rigoletto ''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play '' Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had co ...

'' by Giuseppe Verdi recorded live at the Opera Festival in the Quarr

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, Austri

2018- « Fatima » by Austrian composer

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DVD with the world premiere of this children opera staged on the big stage of the

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in the leading role of the Schlossher

Special edition Box with 22 CD, 150 Years Vienna State Opera . ''

Un ballo in maschera ''Un ballo in maschera'' ''(A Masked Ball)'' is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, '' Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué''. Th ...

'', by G. Verdi, Count Horn (live recorded), Conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos with Piotr Beczala,

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201

Angelotti in Tosca with Piotr Beczala, Karine Babajanyan, Carlos Álvarez live DVD recorded by Unitel.de from the

in June 2019 conductor

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Collaborations

Coliban has sung under the baton of conductors such as Bernard Haitink,

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, Seiji Ozawa,

, Leonard Slatkin,

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, Pinchas Steinberg, Richard Bonynge,

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, Valery Gergiev, Donald Runnicles, and Sebastian Weigle, and worked with the stage directors such as Giancarlo Del Monaco, Robert Carsen, Sven Eric Bechtolf,

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, Luc Bondi, Jean-Louis Martinoty,

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, Benoît Jaquot, and Daniele Abbado among others.

Activity at the State Opera and Volksoper in Vienna

In 2004, Coliban became a member of Volksoper in Vienna, and since then has taken roles such as Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Müller (Irrelohe), Zuniga (Carmen), Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Friedrich Engel (Der Evangelimann) und Konrad Nachtigall (''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''), Timur (Turandot), Eremit (''Der Freischütz''), Bauer (''Die Kluge''), Tommaso (''Tiefland''), Basilio (''Der Barbier von Sevilla''). At Wiener Staatsoper he performed Monterone ("Rigoletto''), Grand Inquisiteur (French version of ''Don Carlos''), and since the 2008–2009 season, Filippo II("Don Carlo"), Sarastro ("The Magic flute"), Hermann ("Tannhäuser"), Capulet (''Roméo et Juliette''), Alidoro (''La Cenerentola"), Fra Melitone (''La forza del destino'' by Verdi), Bartolo (''Le nozze di Figaro''), Basilio (''Il Barbiere di Siviglia''), Fafner and Fasolt ("Rheingold" and "Siegfried"), Commendatore, Geronte di Ravoir in ''Manon Lescaut'' and Colline in ''La bohème'' by Puccini, amongst others.

Recent career

In 2009, he made his debut at the festival

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in Austria, with Ramfis in ''

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'' by Verdi and the Archbishop in ''

'' by Szymanowski. He returned there in the summer of 2010. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 he sang, among other roles, Landgraf Herrmann in ''

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'' by Wagner, Gorjančikov in ''

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'' by Janáček at the State Opera in Vienna, both under the baton of

, Basilio in ''

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'', Sarastro in ''

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'' also at the

, made his debut in the Musikverein in Vienna with a lieder recital and made his debut in the summer 2013 at the Bayreuth Festival in the

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new Richard Wagner ''

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'' production led by Russian conductor

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and directed by

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. In the seasons 2014 to 2017, he debuted the roles of Filippo II in ''

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'', Alidoro in ''

La Cenerentola ' ('' Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera ''Cendrillon'' ...

'', Gonzalo in '' The Tempest'', a contemporary opera by

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in a production of the

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, The Lord of the Castle in the opera ''Fatima'' by

at the

, Kontchak in ''

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'' by Alexander Borodin in a new production at the

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and Peneios in ''

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'' by Richard Strauss at the

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under maestro

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and resang Fafner in '' Siegfried'' with the

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under the baton of

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and Sarastro in ''Die Zauberflöte'' for the first time in the new 2013 production at the

. 2015-2020 sang Don Giovanni (title role) and

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at the Opera Craiova in

and in Sweden , returned as the Khan Kontchak from

by Alexander Borodin at the

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in Vienna and debuted Sparafucile from

by Giuseppe Verdi at the Festival Oper im Steinbruch in

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(broadcast live on national Austrian TV

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). On 20 February 2021, he debuted at La Scala in Milan, in a new Production of '' Salome'' by Richard Strauss conducted by Riccardo Chailly and staged by Damiano Michieletto . The performance was broadcast by Italian cultural television channel

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.In the summer of 2021 he returned as Timur in

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at the Festival Oper im Steinbruch in

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Austria. Recently ,autumn - winter 2021 , he was on a tour with a modern new production of Giuseppe Verdi's

in the role of Ramfis , staged by Roland Schwab ,conducted by Jakob Hultberg and produced by The Danish National Opera

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, with performances in the most important towns of Denmark including Copenhagen

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References

Sorin Coliban in the archive of the Vienna State Opera

Bio of Sorin Coliban at the Bayreuth Festival

Performances with Sorin Coliban at Bregenz Festival

Sorin Coliban in the Archive of San Francisco Opera

Sorin Coliban in the archive of Paris Opera

Sorin Coliban in the archive of the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden

Diva: the new generation
by

Helena Matheopoulos Helena Matheopoulos is a Greek-born, London-based journalist, author, biographer, public speaker and opera specialist. She has worked for a number of high-profile publications including ''Tatler'', ''The Sunday Times'', and Greek ''Vogue'', as wel ...

International who's who in classical music 2007, Europa Publications Limited
* Viorel Cosma – Muzicieni din România, Editura Muzicală,2003
Sebastian Crăciun, Regăsire - Diaspora Muzicală Românească

External links

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