Coral Walterman

Coral Walterman-Soprano

Biography

Coral Walterman has established herself as a leading soprano in the Pacific Northwest. She has appeared with opera companies and orchestras throughout the region. Most recently she has sung as the soprano soloist with the Willamette Falls Symphony, the Portland Columbia Symphony and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra performing an evening of Italian arias, the Mahler 4th Symphony and the Brahms Requiem. She has sung the roles of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Mrs. Ford in the Merry Wives of Windsor and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with the Cascadia Concert Opera. She also has appeared with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in their performance of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and she sang the role of Anna with Vancouver Symphony in Puccini's Le Villi. Coral has sung Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra and she has also performed with the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra in their a performance of Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder and their concert presentation of highlights from Verdi's Otello as Desdemona. As a guest artist with the Astoria Music Festival, she appeared with baritone Richard Zeller in their Sopranos concert. Other appearances have been with Oregon Ballet Theater in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Portland Chamber Orchestra in Thomas Svoboda’s work Returns for Symphony and Soprano. She has performed the role of Rosalinde with Opera Theater Corvallis and with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

Additional roles include Vespina with Portland Chamber Orchestra in Haydn’s opera L’Infedeltà Delusa and Susannah in Susannah with Opera Theater Corvallis in Carlisle Floyd’s American Opera. She has been featured with both the Portland Symphonic Choir and the Eugene Concert Choir as soprano soloist in Mozart’s Grand Mass in C minor and with the Bravo Vancouver Concert Series in Handel’s Messiah. With Cannon Beach Chorale at the Oregon coast she has performed Haydn’s Mass in Time of War. Apart from the Northwest in Temecula, California, Coral was invited to sing with Temecula Symphony Orchestra’s Principle Artists in a performance of Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock. Coral also is also a frequent guest soloist for the Portland Singing Christmas Tree where she has sung for the last eight seasons.

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Appassionata~The Passion of italy and it’s music-Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra

This was such a fun project to present with this great symphony orchestra. It was my first time to work with the wonderful Maestro Steven Byess. I sang five wonderfully dramatic arias from Puccini, Verdi and Mascagni operas. It was a magical evening. I’ve included three arias from that evening in my recordings section.

Brahms Requiem-Olympia Symphony Orchestra

What a privilege to perform with Huw Edwards, Charles Robert Stephens and the much acclaimed Olympia Symphony Orchestra in April.  The choir consisted of two choirs made up of the Olympia Choral Society and the Timberline High School Symphonic Choir both prepared by Terrance Robert Bernard Shaw.  The audience gave us a very warm and exuberant response as we performed in the beautiful Washington Center for the Performing Arts.

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