Born in Bucharest , graduates from the Music Academy, Bucharest in 1995.
His international career starts in Athens Megaron 1996 with the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni as the first price of the singing competition “The quest for Don Giovanni” and in the staging of the Italian bass Ruggero Raimondi.

It continues immediately after, in London, with:
Alvaro in “Alzira ” by G.Verdi at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1996.Will return there in the seasons to come with roles like Colline,”La Boheme” by G.Puccini; Charles V in “Don Carlos” by G.Verdi, Covent Garden’s tour in Edinburgh Festival ; Capulet in “Romeo et Juliette” by Ch.Gounod, 2000 with Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna

Meanwhile, his career continues in Paris Opera houses Bastille, Garnier and Chatelet with:
Alidoro from “La Cenerentola” by G.Rossini, Colline in “La Boheme”, Capellio from “I Montecchi e I Capuletti” by G.Bellini and more modern repertoire: Wagner, Gravis & Zeremonienmeister in “Doktor Faust” By F. Busoni (Theatre du Chatelet).

Acclaimed performances between 1997 and 2004 with:
Raimondo in “Lucia di Lamermoor” by G.Donizetti and Bartolo from “Le Nozze di Fgaro” in War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco; Alidoro in “La Cenerentola” conducted by famous Alberto Zedda and Judas & Bass in staged “Matthäus Passion” by J.S.Bach in Tel Aviv, New Israeli Opera; Filippo II-“Don Carlos” by G.Verdi in Klagenfurt-Austria; Fiesco-“Simon Boccanegra” in St.Gallen, Switzerland; Lord Sidney-“Il Viaggio a Reims” Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro-Italy 2001 and Bass roles in the”Il mondo delle Farse” productions at the Rossini Opera Festival in Teatro Rossini,Pesaro-Italy 2002 ;Colline-Santiago de Chile ; Escamillo in “Carmen” by G.Bizet at Gars am Kamp-openair festival-Austria ; Don Magnifico -“La Cenerentola” in Bergen-Norway ;Zuniga from “Carmen” in Monte-Carlo ; Don Giovanni from “Don Giovanni” and Ferrando from “il Trovatore” by Verdi in National Opera Bucharest ; Holländer role in “Der Fliegende Holländer” by R.Wagner 2003 in Luzern Theater’s co production with Luzern Festival-Switzerland and many others.

Opera in concert:
Banco from “Macbeth” and Fiesco from “Simon Boccangra” by G.Verdi performed in premiere in Radio Concerthall Bucharest 2002-2003 ; Alvaro from”Alzira ” by G.Verdi in Royal Opera House CoventGarden ,London 1996 ; Procida-“Les Vespres Siciliens” by G.Verdi at Queen Elisabeth Hall-London ; Bernardino in “Benvenuto Cellini” by H.Berlioz conductor Valeri Gergiev and with Anna Netrebko in Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Il Frate from “Don Carlos” in Royal Albert Hall ,London 1996 Masetto from “Don Giovanni” by Mozart in Israel tour of Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Antonio Pappano ,1999.

Other important roles in the years 2003 and 2004 were:
Mose in “Mose” by G.Rossini, Sarastro-“Die Zauberflöte” by W.A.Mozart, Macbeth in “Macbeth”-contemporary opera by Salvatore Sciarrino all in Luzern Opera-Switzerland.

Sorin Coliban was born in Bucharest and studied and graduated as a singer and singer teacher from the renowned Bucharest Academy of Music in 1995, after that ,while already working, he studied 6 years with Georgeta Balan in Bucharest. He attended also masterclasses headed by Ileana Cotrubas in 1995 and 2012 and pefectioned his Rossini style and technique in the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro in 20…01.

Since the very beginning of his career in 1996, he has been singing at such prestigious places such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Opera Bastille and Palais Garnier in Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Monte Carlo Opera, Staatsoper in Munich, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Staatsoper and Volksoper in Vienna, War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and Rossini Festival in Pesaro but also in Athen(Megaro Mousikis),Amsterdam(Concertgebouw),Luzern Festival , St. Gallen , Bergen ( Norway) ,Jerusalem,Bucharest,Lyon,Basel,Tokyo etc.
Important rolles debuts were Don Magnifico and Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Guglielmo(Cosi fan tutte), Don Giovanni ( Dn Giovanni),Fiesco(Simon Boccanegra), Filippo II (Don Carlo),Procida( Les vespres siciliens), Lord Sidney (Il Viaggio a Reims),Colline ( La Boheme),Raimondo ( Lucia di Lammermoor),Mose ( Mose by Rossini), Holländer ( Der fliegende Holländer) and many more.

Since the season 2009/2010, Sorin Coliban belongs to the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, where he performs among others Colline(La Boheme),Monterone (Rigoletto), Grand Inquisiteur (Don Carlos), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Capulet (Roméo et Juliette), Fra Melitone (La forza del destino), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro). Recently he made his successful role debuts at the Vienna State Opera as Landgraf Hermann (Tannhäuser) ,as Alexandr Petrovic Gorjancikov (Janacek’s From the House of the Dead) , Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and Raimondo( Lucia di Lammermoor).

Sorin Coliban was also a member of the ensemble of the Volksoper Wien between 2004 and 2009 where he sung in parts such as Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Zuniga (Carmen), Bartolo (Die Hochzeit des Figaro), Friedrich Engel (Der Evangelimann), Konrad Nachtigall (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Timur (Turandot/NP), Eremit (Der Freischütz/NP), Bauer (Die Kluge/NP), Tommaso (Tiefland/NP) and Basilio (Der Barbier von Sevilla/NP).

Recently, he made his debut at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, where he had a great success as Ramfis in Verdi’s Aida and the Archbishop in Szymanowski’s King Roger(has been released as DVD with Unitel-Classica ).He also sang Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Bruckner Festspiele in Linz and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at the Mozart Festival La Coruna in Spain.

Together with Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna and Ruggero Raimondi he participated in the Tosca-movie with EMI – classics and ” Euripide Productions”.

Among his future plans there are Gremin ( Eugen Onegin) role debut at the Vienna State Opera , his debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele 2013 as Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried and Don Basilio (Il Barbiere die Siviglia) at the Opéra de Lausanne in 2014.

Coliban is also a demanded performer in Lieder and Oratorio repertoire such as Verdi Requiem ( in Lyon and Bucharest) ,The 9th Symphony of Beethoven, Pater Profundus in the 8th Symphony of Mahler ( in Dresden and Bucharest) , Matthäus and Johannes Passions by Bach ( Tel Aviv and Bucharest),Elias ( Eiias by F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy).Not far as May 2012 , he made his Vienna Musikverein debut with a Lieder Recital together with pianist Kathleen Kelly.Other recital venues where in Paris , Baden and Bucharest.

Sorin Coliban performed under conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst,Bernard Haitink, Antonio Pappano,Alberto Zedda,Zubin Mehta, Rafael Fruebeck de Burgos, Kent Nagano, Pinchas Steinberg, Sir Mark Elder,Richard Bonynge, Valery Gergiev ,Seiji Ozawa, Bertrand de Billy,Louis Langree, Kirill Petrenko, Daniele Gatti ,James Conlon,Sir Charles Mackerras. He has worked with stage directors such as Sven Eric Bechtolf,Jérôme Savary,Ruggero Raimondi,Christine Mielitz,Renaud Doucet, Alfredo Arias, Robert Carsen, Jonathan Miller, Luc Bondy, Nicolas Joel ,Benoit Jaquot and Graziella Sciutti.

Repertoire
Th.Ades: The tempest – Gonzalo ( Milano Scala , Vienna STOP)
B.Bartok: Herzog Blaubarts Burg- Blaubart ( Bucharest UNIV)
L.van Beethoven : Fidelio – Rocco (in study) (cover Vienna STOP)
​ Leonore – Rocco (cover Vienna STOP)
A.Berg : Wozzeck – Doktor (in study) (cover Vienna)
A. Borodin : Prinz Igor – Kontchak ( German version Volksoper – Vienna)
V.Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Capellio( Paris Bastille) , Lorenzo ( in study)
Il Pirata – Goffredo ( in study)
I Puritani – Lord Valton ( Vienna STOP)
La sonnambula – Conte Rodolfo (in study)
G.Bizet : Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Nourabad (in study)
Carmen – Zuniga ( Paris – Bastille , Monte Carlo , Japan tour)
B.Britten : A midsummer night’s dream -Peter Quince ( cover Vienna STOP)
Theseus (in study)
The little sweep – Black bob ( Vienna STOP)
Billy Budd – Claggart (in study)
Peter Grimes – Hobson (with drum solo) ( Vienna STOP)
F.Busoni : Doktor Faust – Gravis , Wagner , Zeremonienmeister ( Paris Chatelet)
E. D’ Albert: Tiefland – Tommaso(Volksoper)
Cl. Debussy : Pelléas et Mélisande – Arkel (in study)
L. Delibes : Lakmé – Nilakantha ( in study)
G.Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor- Raimondo (San Francisco Opera Maestro R.Bonynge , Vienna STOP)
Don Pasquale – Don Pasquale ( Opera Craiova , Jönköping – Sweden)
A. Dvorak: Rusalka- Vodnik -The water goblin (cover Vienna STOP)
Ch.Gounod : Don Quichotte – Don Quichotte ( in study)
Romeo et Juliette – Capulet (ROH, StOp München, STOP)
– Frere Laurent ( Cover ROH Covent Garden)
Faust – Mephisto (in study)
P.Hindemith : Cardillac -Der Goldhändler ( cover Vienna STOP)
L.Janacek : From the house of the dead – Al. Petrovič Gorjančikov ( Vienna STOP)
The cunning little vixen – Harasta ( in study) ( cover Vienna STOP)
W.Kienzl: Der Evangelimann – Der Justiziär (Vienna Volksoper)
J. Massenet : Manon – Le conte Des Grieux (cover Vienna STOP)
​ Thaïs – Palemon
W.A.Mozart: Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni (Athens Megaron director Maestro Ruggero Raimondi , Bucharest Opera, Craiova)
Don Giovanni – Leporello ( parts in concerts)
Don Giovanni – Masetto ( tour in Israel with Maestro A.Pappano)
Don Giovanni – Commendatore (Vienna STOP, Festival La Coruña, Volksoper, Linz Philharmonie, Gmunden Festspiele -Austria, cov. Glyndebourne Festival)
Idomeneo – La voce di Nettuno ( 2 versions at Vienna STOP)
La clemenza di Titus – Publio (in study)
Le nozze di Figaro – Figaro (Bucharest UNIV,Vienna Opera Festival))
– Bartolo ( Vienna STOP , Volksoper , San Francisco Opera , ROH Oman)
Die Zauberföte – Sarastro(60 times),
Sprecher(50 times),2 Geharnischte (Vienna STOP, La Coruña Fest, Luzern , Volksoper)
Cosi fan Tutte – Guglielmo ( Bergen Opera)
M. Mussorgski : Boris Godunov – Varlaam (in study)
C.Orff: Die Kluge – Der Bauer (Volksoper)
G.Puccini: La Boheme – Colline ( ROH Covent Garden, Paris Bastille ,Vienna STOP, Santiago de Chile)
Gianni Schicchi – Simone (in study) , Betto ( Bucharest UNIV)
Il tabarro – Talpa (in Study)
Madama Butterfly – Zio Bonzo ( Wiener Festwochen, Klagenfurt , Volksoper, Vienna STOP)
Manon Lescaut – Geronte di Ravoir (Vienna STOP)
La fanciulla del West -Ashby (in study) ( cover Vienna STOP)
Tosca – Angelotti (Paris Bastille, Vienna STOP, Bergen Norway), Sciarrone (Cinema Opera Film Tosca) , Sacrestano (in study)
Turandot – Timur (Volksoper , St.Margarethen Festival )
S.Prokofiev : Betrothal in a Monastery – Padre Augustin (Theater an der Wien)
G.Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia – Bartolo ( in study)
La Cenerentola – Alidoro (Paris Garnier, Tel Aviv with Maestro Alberto Zedda , Vienna STOP)
– Don Magnifico (Bergen Opera Norway)
Guillaume Tell – Walther Furst (in study)
– Gesler (in study) ( cover Vienna STOP)
Mosé – Mosé (Luzerner Theater)
Semiramide – Oroe ( in study)
Il Viaggio a Reims – Lord Sidney ( Rossini Fest. Pesaro)
Il Viaggio a Reims – Don Profondo (in study)
N.Rota: Aladino – Sultano ( STOP)
C.Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila: Abimelech ( Vienna STOP , Premiere with E.Garanca & R.Alagna)
S.Sciarrino: Macbeth – Macbeth (Luzerner Theater)
D.Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District – The chief of Police ( Vienna STOP)
K.Szimanovsky : Krol Roger – Archbishop (Bregenz Festival with Maestro Sir. Mark Elder)
R. Strauss : Salome – 1 Nazarener, 1 Soldat ( Scala Milano) , 2 Soldat , 5 Jude ( Vienna STOP)
Salome – Jochanaan ( in study)
Arabella – Lamoral ( Vienna STOP)
– Graf Waldner (in study)
Daphne – Peneios (Berliner Philharmonie with Maestro. M.Janowski)
Elektra – Orest, Der Pfleger ( cover Vienna STOP)
Die Liebe der Danae – 4te König ( in study)
P. I . Tschaikovski : Eugen Onegin – Prince Gremin ( Vienna STOP with A.Netrebko & D.Hvorostovski)
Pique Dame – Surin ( Vienna STOP with Grace Bumbry u.a)
V.Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis – Der Tod (in study)
Der Kaiser von Atlantis – Lautsprecher ( Festival Retz Austria)
G.Verdi: Aida – Il Re ( in study)
Alzira – Alvaro ( sang at ROH Covent Garden)
Don Carlo – Filippo II (Vienna STOP , Klagenfurt), Inquisitore ( cover Vienna STOP), – Il Frate (Proms London)
Don Carlos – Philippe II ( cover ROH Covent Garden,cover Vienna STOP),
– Le Grand Inquisiteur ( Vienna STOP, Basel , Düsseldorf) ,
– Le Frere/Charles V (Edinburgh Fest)
Otello – Lodovico ( Vienna STOP)
Rigoletto – Monterone ( ROH Covent Garden, Vienna STOP) ,
– Sparafucile (Festival St.Margarethen Austria)
Simon Boccanegra – Fiesco ( Theater St. Gallen , Bucharest Radio Hall) ,
– Pietro ( Vienna STOP with Maestro Placido Domingo as Simon)
La forza del Destino – Fra Melitone (9 performances Vienna STOP)
– Marchese di Calatrava (in study)
La Traviata – Barone Douphol (Paris Bastille , Vienna STOP)
Il Trovatore – Ferrando (Vienna STOP, Bergen Opera , Bucharest Opera)
Les Vespres Siciliens – Procida (Queen Elizabeth Hall London COG)
Un ballo in maschera – Samuel (Scala Milano)
– Tom ( Vienna STOP)
R.Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer – Der Holländer / 15 Performances (Luzerner Theater – Luzern Festival)
– Daland ( in study)
Götterdämmerung – Hagen (in study)
Der Ring an einem Abend (R.Wagner – Loriot version) – Hagen
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Veit Pogner (cover STOP)
– Nachtigall (Volksoper)
Lohengrin – König Heinrich der Vogler (Shanghai Opera, Suzhou Concert Hall, cover STOP)
Parsifal – Gurnemanz (in study) ( cover Vienna STOP)
Parsifal – Titurel (in study)
Das Rheingold – Fasolt (Vienna STOP Maestro Fr. Welser – Möst , MÜPA Wagner Days Budapest)
– Fafner ( R. Wagner Bayreuther Festspiele with Maestro Kirill Petrenko , Vienna STOP)
Siegfried – Fafner ( Bayreuther Festspiele , Vienna STOP)
Tannhäuser – Landgraf Hermann ( Vienna STOP)
Walküre – Hunding ( MÜPA Wagner Days Festival Budapest with Maestro Adam Fischer)
C.M. Von Weber: Der Freischütz – Eremit (Volksoper , cover Vienna STOP)
K. Weill: Die sieben Todsünden – Mutter ( Luzern , Linz Philharmonie)
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagony – Dreieinigkeitsmoses (in study) ( cover Vienna STOP)
– Alaskawolf Joe ( in study)
J.Weinberger : Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer – Der Magier

Oratorio – Concert:
J.S.Bach: Matthäus Passion – Jesus, Judas – Bass Arien (Tel Aviv,Bucharest)
Johannes Passion – Jesus, Bass Arien
Ich habe genug BWV 82 -Kirchenkantate, Bass
Schweigt stille,plaudert nicht (Kaffeekantate)BWV211
L. v Beethoven: 9th Simphony – Bass
Missa Solemnis – Bass
“Tremate, empi tremate” Op.116, Trio STB with orchestra, Bass
Hector Berlioz : L´enfance du Christ, op.25, Herodes – Bass
​J. Brahms : Ein deutsches Requiem – Bariton
C. Franck : Les Beatitudes – Satan, L’Ange de la Mort
G.F.Haendel : Der Messias (Messiah HWV56) (in study)
Das Alexanderfest (HWV 75)(in study)
Samson (HWV 57) Manoah – Bass
G.Mahler: Simphony VIII – Bass , Pater Profundus
F.Mendelsohn-Bartholdy: Elias – Elias
W.A.Mozart : Requiem KV626
Missa Brevis in C (Krönungsmesse) KV317
Missa Solemnis KV337

Concert Arias with orchestra:
– “Mentre ti lascio,oh figlia” KV513
– “Io ti lascio ,oh cara addio” KV 621a
– “Ich möchte wohl der Kaiser sein” KV539
– “Per questa bella mano” KV621
– “Un bacio di mano” KV 541
​G. Rossini : Stabat Mater – Bass (in study)
C.Saint-Saëns : Oratorio de Noël ,Op.12 , Bariton (in study)
I.Stravinski: Oedipus Rex – Creon ,Tiresias
Requiem Canticles – solo bass-baritone
G.Verdi: Requiem – Bass
W.Walton : Belshazzar’s Feast , Baritone -solo (in study)