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ELIANA LAPPALAINEN
Finnish-Canadian soprano Eilana Lappalainen is
quickly becoming one of the world's most sought
after interpreters of Strauss's Salome. Since her
1996 role debut in the acclaimed Felsenstein
production, which performed for six consecutive
years, she has performed the role in Seattle, New
York, Nashville, Kentucky, Warsaw, Trieste,
Mannheim, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kagoshima, Morioka,
Nagoya,
Kanazawa,
Fukuoka,
Kumamoto,
Toyama, Katowice, Ottawa, Montreal, Wintertur,
Detroit, Bergen, Vilnius and The Peralada Festival.
The July 2002 Opera News review of the Seattle
production states: Lappalainen's extraordinary
physical lightness and agility, her diverse vocal
palette and her grasp of the character's
complexity were deeply moving... Her dance of
the seven veils is simply the best I've ever seen
(including Welitsch, Borkh and Stratas on film,
perhaps the greatest Salome ever.)"
In Ms. Lappalainen's debut with Opera de
Montreal as Salome, she sparked one critic to
write: "Eilana Lappalainen is a revelation!" - La
Presse. In the same season she made her debuts
in Hamburgische Staatsoper as Elsa in Lohengrin
and at the Prague State Opera in Der FreischUtz.
Additional engagements have taken the young
soprano to San Francisco Opera, the Deutsche
Oper Berlin, the Finnish National Opera, Opera
Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Arizona, Portland,
Cincinnati, Virginia, Opera Hamilton and Opera
Lyra in Ottawa. Her performances in these houses
included the core of her repertoire: Lulu,
Lohengrin, Der fliegende Hollander, Der
Rosenkavalier,
Arabella,
Jenufa,
Madama
Butterfly, Tosca, I Pagliacci, La Traviata, Wozzeck
and Turandot.
The 2006-2007 season heard Ms. Lappalainen
as Salome with Michigan Opera Theater, Madama Butterfly with Rimrock Opera, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Greece with Festival of the Aegean, the Verdi Requiem with the ManPagina 2
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hattan Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, her Weill Recital
Debut at Carnegie, Donna Anna and the Verdi Requiem
with the Bohuslav Martin Philharmonic in the Czech
Republic, a Verdi Gala in Taranto Italy, Palermo, and
once again Salome in a David Aldon production with
the Lithuanian National Opera.
The years 2000-2005 have seen many highlights for
Ms. Lappalainen including: her debut at La Scala in a
Peter Stein production of the world premiere of
Corghi's Tat'jana, singing the main role; her
performance as Abigaille in Nabucco at the National
Theater in Warsaw; and her debut with the New Israeli
Opera as Marie in Wozzeck. She also performed
Mefistofele in Montreal; Elsa in Lohengrin in Trier;
Hanna in The Merry Widow in Hamilton; and has sung
in Madama Butterfly, Jenufa, Der fliegende Hollander,
Giovanna d'Arco and Eugene Onegin. In concert she
sang with the Berliner Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester in a
program of all Berg and Mahler and in Wagner's
Gotterdammerung at the Bruckner Festival in Linz. In
the same period she made her first solo CD of Italian
arias in St. Petersburg. Ms. Lappalainen starred as
Salome with New York City Opera, Seattle Opera,
Kentucky Opera, Nashville Opera, Polish National Opera, Opera Lyra and two tours in Japan
(one tour including ten cities). She sang the role of Senta in Der fliegende Hollander in Japan
and for the Minnesota Opera, and the title role of Tosca, and Nedda in I Pagliacci for a summer Festspiel in Burg Hohenstein near Wiesbaden. Ms. Lappalainen has also performed in
productions of La Fanciulla del West, Der Freischutz, Nedda in I Pagliacci and Santuzza in
Cavalleria Rusticana in Dessau. On concert stages she performed in a Wagner/Strauss Lieder Abend and in concerts in Ottawa and Wiesbaden.
In recent seasons Ms. Lappalainen has returned to the Opera Bellas Artes, performing Marie
in Wozzeck in a live national broadcast in Mexico. She debuted with the San Francisco Opera as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, and in the title role of Lulu directed by Lotfi Mansouri.
She also sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Senta in a new Goetz Friedrich production of
Der fliegende Hollander, Salome and her first Maddalena in Andrea Chenier with the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau and continued performances of the Verdi Requiem, La Traviata and
Jenufa. In Dessau she sang the title role in a new production of Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco with
original Schiller text. In addition, Ms. Lappalainen performed in a concert series featuring
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French repertoire in Weisbaden, Gala
performances at the theater in Forth, and
Verdi Galas at the Schauspielhaus and the
Philharmonie in Berlin.
In previous seasons 1997-1999, Ms.
Lappalainen returned to the Deutsche Oper
Berlin in Der fliegende Hollonder, to Essen
for Arabella and Die Fledermaus and did her
first Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes. She had a
huge success as Salome in her Italian debut
at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste.
Audiences in Wiesbaden and Bremen heard
her in Der fliegende Hollander and she sang
Elsa in Lohengrin in Wurzburg and, in
Dessau, Tosca and her first Marschallin in
Der Rosenkavalier.
Ms. Lappalainen
opened San Francisco's summer season
with the title role of Lulu. She did her
Austrian debut in Linz as Elsa in Lohengrin,
as Violetta in the Landesbohne Dresden's
La Traviata and as Arabella in Essen.
Dessau heard her as Marta in Tiefland's Graf
von Luxembourg and in the Feisenstein
productions of La Boheme and Der fliegende Hollander. She also sang Gala concerts with
Tulsa Opera and in Alabama, Koln, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Dusseldorf.
Ms. Lappalainen has sung the title role of Jenufa for the Portland Opera, Elsa in Lohengrin
in Halle and Dessau, and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Columbus as well
as with Opera Lyra and Opera Hamilton. With Virginia Opera she performed the roles of Violetta in La Traviata, Micaela in Carmen and Liu in Turandot (a role she repeated later with the
Arizona Opera). Opera Hamilton heard her as Mimi in La Boheme and in the title role in Madama Butterfly. She has sung with the Finnish National Opera as Mimi, the Cincinnati Opera
as Nedda in I Pagliacci and at the Opera Bellas Artes in Mexico as Cio-Cio San in Madama
Butterfly, as Nedda in I Pagliacci and as Arabella in Bielefeld. With the Anhaltisches Theater
in Dessau she scored triumphs in roles such as Violetta, Marguerita, Arabella, Desdemona
and Amalia in I Masnadieri as well as in the operetta roles of Hanna in The Merry Widow and
the title role in Victoria und Ihr Hussar. Eilana has also sung 30 leading opera roles as a Resident Artist at Opera San Jose in California, under the direction of Irene Dalis.
On the concert stage, Eilana Lappalainen has sung opera galas with the Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra (one of which featured scenes from Fidelio and Otello and was televiPagina 4
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sed throughout Finland) and also toured Finland in
recital. In 2005 she sang at an opera gala at "La
Piccola Scala" in Syros, Greece and at a recital for the
Summer Festival Urkuy ja Aaria in Espoo, Finland. Ms.
Lappalainen made her Carnegie Hall debut in the
Mozart Requiem in 2005, her Weill Recital Hall debut in
2006 and returned to Carnegie Hall in 2007 in Verdi's
Requiem. She sang in Verdi Galas and recitals in
Espoo, Finland, and performed the Verdi Requiem in
the Czech Republic. She has also sung at a Verdi gala
in Japan in 2005. She has done recitals in Germany
and California, made her New York recital debut with
the Sibelius Society, and also sang in an Italian Aria
performance at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto. Her
concert repertoire includes Wagner's Wesendonck
Lieder, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Strauss's
Four Last Songs.
Eilana Lappalainen recorded a live broadcast of
Salome (2004) with the National Polish Radio
Symphony Orchestra, a solo CD of Italian arias in St. Petersburg, Russia, a CD as Salome in
a live performance, and a CD of Verdi's arias and duets with the Anhalisches Symphony
Dessau. Her voice has also been heard as Mimi in the film Cafe and Tobacco.
Ms. Lappalainen's upcoming engagement schedule includes performing Silvia in Mascagni's
Zanetto at Carnegie Hall, the Czech Republic, Greece and a studio recording with Jennifer
Larmore. She will sing the role of Beatrice in Der Vipern by Christian Jost for her debut in
Bern, Switzerland. Marie in Wozzeck brings her to Rome and she will perform her first Leonore in Trovatore with Virginia Opera. Eilana will return to Vilnius in the David Aldon
production of Salome with the Lithuanian National Opera. The concert stage will hear her in
Taranto and Catania Italy, Katowice Poland, Mexico City, Greece and California.
REPERTORY
BORODIN
Jaroslavna PRINCE IGOR
BARBER
Vanessa VANESSA
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JANACEK
Jenufa JENUFA
W.A. MOZART
Elettra IDOMENEO
F. LEHAR
Hanna DIE LUSTIGE WITWE
V.BELLINI
Norma NORMA
A. BOITO
Margherita/Elena MEFISTOFELE
P. MASCAGNI
Santuzza CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
BRITTEN
Ellen Ford PETER GRIMES
DVORACK
Rusalka, The Foreign Princess RUSALKA
A. BERG
Marie WOZZEK
Lulu LULU
TCHAJKOVSKY
Tatjana ONEGHIN
U.GIORDANO
Maddalena de Coigny ANDREA CHENIER
R. STRAUSS
Salome’ SALOME’
Arabella ARABELLA
Marschallin DER ROSENKAVALIER
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R. WAGNER
Elsa LOHENGRIN
Senta DIE FLEGENDE HOLLANDER
Gutrune GOTTERDAMMERUNG
SMETANA
Maria THE BARTERED BRIDE
WEBER
Agatha FREISCHUTZ
G. PUCCINI
Tosca TOSCA
Giorgetta TABARRO
Minnie FANCIULLA DEL WEST
Magda LA RONDINE
Cio Cio San MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Mimi’ LA BOHEME
Suor Angelica SUOR ANGELICA
Manon Lescaut MANON LESCAUT
Liu’ TURANDOT
J. STRAUSS
Rosalinde FLEDERMAUS
G. VERDI
Giovanna GIOVANNA D’ARCO
Leonora TROVATORE
Amelia UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Desdemona OTELLO
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