Pamela Coburn
Pamela Coburn obtained her voice training at the Eastman School of Music, the Juilliard School in New York and then with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, with whom she studied the lieder genre. In 1980, she came first in the German television network’s prestigious singing competition in Munich and two years later won a similar competition at the Metropolitan Opera.
Since her striking success as Rosalinde in a 1982 production of Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich with Carlos Kleiber conducting, American lyric soprano Pamela Coburn has held her own among the world‘s leading singers.
She is a regular guest in opera houses and concert halls of worldwide renown, including the Vienna State Opera, New York‘s Carnegie Hall and Metropolitan Opera, in Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Paris, Toulouse, London and Tokyo’s New National Theatre. She has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival and at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The list of conductors with whom Pamela Coburn has worked is long indeed and includes such big names as Carlos Kleiber, Sir Colin Davis, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Eschenbach, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Georg Solti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Helmuth Rilling, Erich Leinsdorf, James Conlon, Bernhard Haitink and Christian Thielemann.
Her enormously wide opera repertory ranges from Monteverdi to Penderecki. Especially worth mentioning are the roles of the Countess in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro”, Fiordiligi in “Cosi fan tutte”, Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni”, Cleopatra in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” and Nitocris in “Belshazzar”, Alice in Verdi’s “Falstaff”, the Countess in Strauss’s “Capriccio” and the Marschall in “Der Rosenkavalier”, Arabella, Ellen Orford in Britten’s “Peter Grimes”, Freia in Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” as well as Queen Rosamunde in Penderecki’s “Ubu Rex”.
Since her striking success as Rosalinde in a 1982 production of Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich with Carlos Kleiber conducting, American lyric soprano Pamela Coburn has held her own among the world‘s leading singers.
She is a regular guest in opera houses and concert halls of worldwide renown, including the Vienna State Opera, New York‘s Carnegie Hall and Metropolitan Opera, in Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Paris, Toulouse, London and Tokyo’s New National Theatre. She has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival and at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The list of conductors with whom Pamela Coburn has worked is long indeed and includes such big names as Carlos Kleiber, Sir Colin Davis, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Eschenbach, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Georg Solti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Helmuth Rilling, Erich Leinsdorf, James Conlon, Bernhard Haitink and Christian Thielemann.
Her enormously wide opera repertory ranges from Monteverdi to Penderecki. Especially worth mentioning are the roles of the Countess in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro”, Fiordiligi in “Cosi fan tutte”, Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni”, Cleopatra in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” and Nitocris in “Belshazzar”, Alice in Verdi’s “Falstaff”, the Countess in Strauss’s “Capriccio” and the Marschall in “Der Rosenkavalier”, Arabella, Ellen Orford in Britten’s “Peter Grimes”, Freia in Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” as well as Queen Rosamunde in Penderecki’s “Ubu Rex”.
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