Soile Isokoski
Soile Isokoski ( born February 14, 1957 in Posio, Finland) is a Finnish opera, recital and concert singer ( lyric soprano ).
She studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and was there in 1986 her concert debut. In 1987 she was awarded the 2nd prize at the BBC Singer of the World Competition in Cardiff. In 1988, she won the 1st prize of Elly Ameling and 1990 the Tokyo - singing competition. Her operatic debut in 1987 as Mimì (La Bohème ) at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. She sang in a short time at most of the major opera houses of the world, including La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Saxon State Opera Dresden, Metropolitan Opera, as well as the festivals in Salzburg, Edinburgh and Savonlinna. It has a varied and extensive concert repertoire and regularly gives recitals with her piano partner Marita Viitasalo
2002 Soile Isokoski was for their recording of the Four Last Songs and other orchestral songs by Richard Strauss with Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the coveted Gramophone Editor's Choice Award. In 2008 her the title of the opera singer was awarded by the Vienna State Opera.
Operatic roles (selection)
- Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro )
- Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni)
- Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte )
- Pamina ( The Magic Flute )
- Desdemona ( Otello )
- Alice Ford Falstaff ( Falstaff )
- Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
- Elsa ( Lohengrin )
- Agathe ( Der Freischütz )
- Mimi (La Bohème )
- Micaela ( Carmen )
- Marenka ( The Bartered Bride)
- Amelia (Simon Boccanegra )
- Antonia ( Tales of Hoffmann )
- Marschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier )
- Countess ( Capriccio )
- Ariadne ( Ariadne auf Naxos)
- Daphne (Daphne)
- Marguerite ( Faust )
- Rachel (La Juive )
- Liù ( Turandot )
- Tatiana ( Eugene Onegin )
- Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes )
Swell
- Who's Who in Finland in 2007, Otava 2006