Eliane Coelho, soprano
audio:
Bellini : Oh! S’io
potessi - Col sorriso d’innocenza (Il pirata) new 2008
Ponchielli: Suicidio (La
Gioconda) - 2006
Strauss: September (Vier
letzte
Lieder)
- 2005
Bellini: Casta diva
& Ah bello, a me ritorna (Norma) - 2005
Verdi: Anch'io dischiuso un giorno & Salgo già del trono (Nabucco)
Verdi: Quelle ivresse (Jérusalem)
Verdi: Mes plaintes (Jérusalem)
Verdi: Mercè dillette
amiche (I vespri siciliani)
video:
Puccini: In quelle trine morbide & duet with Lescaut
(Manon Lescaut)
also on Youtube
- new:
June 2008
Puccini: Menuet: “L’ora, o Tirsi”
(Manon Lescaut)
also on Youtube
- new:
June 2008
Puccini: Sola, perduta, abbandonata
(Manon Lescaut) also on Youtube
- new:
June 2008
Shostakovitch: 3 excerpts from Lady Macbeth from Mzensk also on Youtube - new:
May 2007
Ponchielli: Suicidio (La Gioconda) also
on Youtube - new: August 2006
Bellini: Casta diva
(Norma) also on Youtube - new: December 2006
Puccini: Vissi
d'arte
(Tosca) concert recording - also on Youtube- new: December 2006
Gomes: O miei notti d'amor (Maria
Tudor)
also
on Youtube - new:
November
2006
Verdi: Anch'io dischiuso un giorno & Salgo già del trono (Nabucco)
Verdi: Quelle
ivresse (Jérusalem)
also
on
Youtube
Puccini: Vissi d'arte (Tosca) also on Youtube - staged performance
Bellini: Qual
cor tradisti (Norma) (role debut 2005)
Mozart: D'Oreste d'Aiace (Idomeneo)
Verdi: È dolce raggio, celeste dono (I
vespri siciliani) with Keith Ikaia-Purdy
Eliane Coelho is regarded as one of the most versatile and interesting artists
whose repertoire ranges from Mozart to bel canto, verismo and
to the dramatic German Fach.
Born
in
Her
engagement at the opera Frankfurt slowly lead her to more dramatic parts like
Marie (Smetana's
The Bartered Bride), the title role in Dvořák's
Rusalka,
Alice in Verdi's Falstaff, Mimì in Puccini‘s La Bohème,
Saffi
in Strauß’
Der
Zigeunerbaron,
and Tatiana in Tschaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
1991
she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera, where she interpreted practically
all her roles of her current repertoire since: the title heroines in Strauss's Salome
and Arabella,
Mozart's Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Elettra
(Idomeneo),
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Verdi's Aida,
Leonora (Il Trovatore), Desdemona (Otello),
Elisabetta
(Don Carlo), Lina (Stiffelio),
Elvira (Ernani), Elena (I vespri siciliani),
Lady (Macbeth), Abigaille (Nabucco),
the title roles in Puccini's Madama Butterfly,
Tosca as well as Mimì in La Bohème,
Liù
in Turandot,
Giorgetta
in Il tabarro, Hanna Glawari
(Lehár's
The Merry Widow), Giulietta (Offenbach's Les
contes
d’Hoffmann),
Dame (Hindemith's Cardillac), Giordano's Fedora
and Maddalena
in Andrea Chénier, Margherita and
Elena in Boito's
Mefistofele
and Salomé in Massenet's Hérodiade.
She
achieved a triumphal success at the Vienna State Opera as Hélène in a new
production of Verdi's Jérusalem under
the baton of Zubin Mehta.
Numerous
guest appearances during the recent seasons lead her to the following theatres:
Bavarian State Opera Munich (Idomeneo, Don
Giovanni, Salome), Scala di Milano
(Madama
Butterfly), Megaron Athens (Elena in Verdi's
I lombardi)
Zurich (Andrea Chénier), Aix-en-Provence
(Idomeneo),
Deutsche Oper
Berlin (Tosca), State Opera Berlin (Salome, Madama
Butterfly), Stockholm (Aida and Arabella),
Rio de Janeiro (Simon Boccanegra, Madama
Butterfly and La Bohème), Tokyo (Salome,
The Merry Widow), Dresden (Salome, Aida)
and Paris Opéra
Bastille, Welsh National Opera und Amsterdam always with Salome.
1998
she was honoured with the title "Kammersängerin" in
During
the last seasons she sang at the Megaron in Athens (new
production of I vespri siciliani),in
St. Gallen
(role debut in the title role in Turandot), at the State
Opera Berlin (Turandot) and the
Deutsche Oper
Berlin (Tosca), at State Opera Hamburg (Madama
Butterfly), in Zurich (Fedora), Bucharest (role debut in
the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda),
in Frankfurt (Salome) at the Vienna State Opera (Les Contes
d’Hoffmann,
Tosca, Nabucco and the
revival of Jérusalem).
In
June 2005 she interpreted Strauss's Vier letzte
Lieder with Vjekoslav Šutej and the
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, and in October 2005 she gave a very successful
role debut as Norma in St Gallen. In May 2006 she was
acclaimed for her stage-role debut as La Gioconda
in Manaús.
The
2006/2007 season included her role successful debut as Katerina Ismailova
in Shostakovitch’s
Lady Macbeth from Mzensk in Manaús,
La Gioconda
in Sao Paolo, Lina in Stiffelio in
a concert performance for the Romanian Radio in Bucharest, an operatic concerts
in Basel and in Manaús, a concert with French orchestra songs in
Rio de Janeiro as well as a gala performance at the Bucharest State opera of Tosca
with Eduard Tumagian and Juremir Vieira.
A
DVD recording of Verdi's Requiem will be released shortly, as well as a recital
CD with music by Strauss, Wagner and Bellini.
The
year 2008 started with an important role debut: The title role in Puccini's Manon
Lescaut
in
Her next role debut will be Chimène in Massenet’s Le
Cid for Opera Amazonas in
Furthermore
Eliane
Coelho is also a regular guest at the great concert platforms, for example with
Verdi's Requiem (Vienna Musikverein, Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra in Tel Aviv), Dvořák's Stabat
Mater, Strauss’s Vier letzte
Lieder or Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été.
Most recently she sang a Lieder recital in the Moscow Conservatory in May 2008,
which was broadcast live on Russian TV, a Puccini-Gala concert in
January 2009