Sorin Coliban (born in Bucharest ) is a Romanian opera 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 Salvatore Sciarrino in Luzern in 2004) with two different voices in the same performance: bass-baritone and countertenor.

Biographie

Early career
Sorin Coliban graduated in opera, lied and vocal symphonic singing sections at the Academy of Music in Bucharest in 1995, and also attended classes headed by well known Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubaș 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 Alberto Zedda in the year 2001.

Early in his career he performed at venues such as the Royal Opera House in London, L'Opéra Bastille in Paris, Palais Garnier, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center in Tel Aviv.
His career gained momentum after winning the singing competition "The quest for Don Giovanni" in Athens 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 Ruggero Raimondi,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).