Annely Peebo

b. November 16, 1971 Viljandi

Annely Peebo graduated from Tallinn Music High School (1990) in Elo Kaarepere conducting class. In 1994 she began her vocal studies with Gerhard Kahry at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Later she has additionally studied Lied and vocal-symphonic forms interpretation with Kurt Equiluz and opera singing with Kurt Malm and Uwe Theimer.

During 1991 to 1994 Peebo was a singer (also a soloist) of Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste. As a member of the choir she toured in America, Australia, Japan, Norway, Italy, Austria, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Holland, Belgium and elsewhere.

In 1997 Peebo became a soloist at Volksoper Vienna. At the same year she debuted at Staatsoper Vienna in opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Stefan Soltesz and in 1999 she participated in its tour to Japan. Since 2005 she is a freelance soloist.

Annely Peebo has sang opera roles at opera theaters in Milan, Naples, Genoa, Verona, Cagliari, Ravenna, Turin, Helsinki, Vienna, Trieste, Paris, Caen, London and elsewhere. She has worked with outstanding conductors such as Georges Prêtre, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Neville Marriner, Claudio Abbado, Ton Koopman, Dennis Russell Davies, Jonathan Nott, Ulf Schirmer, Christopher Hogwood, Stefan Soltesz, Fabio Luisi, Ion Marin, Manfred Honeck, Bertrand de Billy, Ottavio Dantone, Paavo Järvi, Kristjan Järvi, Plácido Domingo, Thomas Hengelbrock, Gérard Korsten, Michael Gielen, Tõnu Kaljuste, Eri Klas and others.

In 2002 she participated (as Flora) in the performance of La traviata in Giuseppe Verdi Festival in Parma, with Stefania Bonfadelli and Renato Bruson. She has also performed in several festivals both in Estonia (David Oistrakh Festival, Leigo Lake Music festival, Nargen Festival, Birgitta Festival, festival „Tubin and his Time”) and abroad (Salzburg Music Festival, Schwarzenberg Schubertiad, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Wiener Festwochen Festival, Savolinna Opera Festival, Klosterneuburg Summer Festival, Sacred Music Festival in Riga, Rudolf Buchbinder’s Grafenegg Music Festival and others).

Annely Peebo is a very sought-after solo singer. Her extensive concert repertoire covers the most important works of vocal music history. In 1999 she debuted as a chamber singer with Lied program in Vienna Concert Hall. She has also sung with Andrea Bocelli at an open-air concert in Tallinn in the summer 2003 and in Estonian singers introducing concert series Vocalissimo, piano accompaniment by Hartmut Hudezeck from Germany. In 2006 she performed with Grace Bumbry and Juan Diego Flórez in concert program Christmas in Vienna. She has given concerts in many famous concert halls in Europe (Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, Leipzig, Bonn, Milan, Trieste, Florence, Turin, Rome, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, Helsinki, Riga etc.) and in Moscow, Tokyo and Singapore.

Peebo has performed vocal-symphonic music by Johann Sebastian Bach (St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio), Georg Friederich Händel (Messiah and Dixit Dominus), Georg Philipp Telemann (cantatas), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mass in C Minor and Requiem), Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis), Antonín Dvo?ák (Stabat Mater), Anton Bruckner (Te Deum and Mass F Minor) etc. In 2003 Peebo sang Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 (conducted by Howard Arman) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the pontificate of John Paul II at the Vatican.

Her repertoire consists leading opera roles, including Maddalena (Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto), Flora (Verdi La traviata), Angelina (Gioachino Rossini Cinderella), Marchese Melibea (Rossini Ilviaggio a Reims), Zaida (Rossini Il Turco in Italia), Donna Elvira (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni), Sesto (Mozart La clemenza di Tito), Dorabella (Mozart Così fan tutte), Cherubino (Mozart Le nozze di Figaro), 2nd and 3rd Dame (Mozart Die Zauberflöte), Idamante (Mozart Idomeneo), Mercédès (Georges Bizet Carmen), Hermia (Benjamin Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Governess (Britten The Turn of the Screw), Hänsel (Engelbert Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel), Nicklausse (Jacques Offenbach Les contes d’Hoffmann), Flower maiden and Voice from Above (Richard Wagner Parsifal), Karolka (Leoš Jana?ek Jen?fa), Octavian (Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier), Medoro (George Friderich Händel Orlando), Fetima (Carl Maria von Weber Oberon) and others. She has also participated in the premiere of opera Penthesilea by Tobias Ofenbauer and sang in operettas (Die Csárdásfürstin by Emmerich Kálmán, Der Opernball Richard Heuberger, Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss and others).

In 2002 Annely Peebo represented her home country Estonia by hosting the Eurovision Song Contest. She was the leading lady in an award-winning international music film Les lecons de tenebres in a coproduction with television channels France 3 and Arte. In 2003 TOYP (The Outstanding Young Person of Switzerland) named her Woman of the Year. In 2005 she hosted and performed at the EXPO in Japan.

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