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Since her outstanding success in 1982 as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Bavarian State Opera under the direction of Carlos Kleiber, Pamela Coburn has been counted among the leading international lyric singers. She is a regular guest performer in the world's most important opera houses and concert halls such as Vienna, Bavaria, Hamburg, Berlin, Münich, Salzburg, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall.

Pamela Coburn's broad repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the Contemporary. She has performed such roles as the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozzi di Figaro, Fiordiligi, Cosi fan Tutte, Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Cleopatra, Händel's Giulio Cesare, Alice Ford, Falstaff, Countess, Capriccio, Marschallin, Der Rosenkavalier, Ellen Orford, Peter Grimes, Freia, Das Rheingold, and Queen Rosemunde in Pendericki's Ubu Rex.

Pamela Coburn's concert repertoire is as broad as her opera spectrum, including most of the classical and modern works, as well as cantatas, oratorios, lieder, symphonies, requiems by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Britten, Dvorak, Elgar, Mahler, Orff, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Zimmermann, and more. Among the conductors with whom Pamela Coburn has collaborated are Carlos Kleiber, Sir Colin Davis, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Loren Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Sir Georg Solti, Nikolas Harnoncourt, Helmut Rilling, Erich Leinsdorf, James Conlon, Bernhard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Peter Schreier, and Christian Thielemann.

Pamela Coburn has made numerous records and CDs, among them Siebel in Gounod's Faust with Sir Colin Davis, Marzellina in Beethoven's Fidelio with Bernhard Haitink, Leonore with Marc Soustrot, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Bruckner's Te Deum with Helmut Rilling, Mahler's Symphony #8 with Lorin Maazel, Mahler's Symphony #4 with Vaclav Neumann, Mendelssohn's Symphony #2 with Karl-Friedrich Beringer, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Strauss' Gypsy Baron with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Folk Songs with Hermann Prey, Strauss Lieder with Helmut Deutsch and Lehar's The Merry Widow with Helmuth Froschauer.

Pamela Coburn performed one of her signature roles, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at The New National Theater in Tokyo, Japan, repeated her role at the Bavarian State Opera in Münich, and participated in the Richard Strauss Festival in Germisch-Partenkirchen.

During the 2001 Spring May Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, Pamela Coburn sang Haydn's Creation and Bach's Mass in B minor. Later, she returned to the Komische Oper Berlin with her grieving Hanna Glawari in Lehar's The Merry Widow, and then to the San Francisco Symphony for Dvorak's Stabat Mater.

During the 2001-2002 season, Pamela Coburn was soprano soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Wolfgang Sawallisch conducted Strauss' Four Last Songs. In addition, the Saratoga Music Festival heard Pamela perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony. She then appeared with the Montreal and Detroit Symphony (again with Beethoven's 9th Symphony), Itzak Perlman conducting. Ending the 2002 season, Duesseldorf heard a Gershwin concert on New Years Day, 2003.

Pamela Coburn is a native of Dayton, Ohio. She took her voice education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Juilliard School in New York City. In addition, she studied song literature with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. In 1980, she was the winner of the ARD (German Broadcasting Company) competition in Münich, and in 1982, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Competition.