Sorin Coliban was born in Bucharest and studied at the city's academy of music, where he sang Bluebeard in Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Figaro among other roles until graduating in 1995. His career began in 1996 as Don Giovanni (staging: Ruggero Raimondi) in Athens Megaro Mousikis. In the following years he received invitations to the Royal Opera House, Opéra Bastille in Paris, Garnier and Châtelet, San Francisco (1999), Santiago de Chile, Tel Aviv (2002), the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Opéra Monte-Carlo, Bavarian State Opera in Munich (2005), Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Klagenfurt Theatre, to Lucerne (2004), the Vienna Festwochen and the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper (2005) as well as Basel Theatre (2007). His repertoire embraces roles like Philip II (Don Carlos), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Procida (Les vêpres siciliennes), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Ferrando (Il trovatore), Banquo (Macbeth), Don Giovanni and Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Capulet (Roméo et Juliette), Escamillo (Carmen), Colline (La Bohème), Sarastro (The Magic Flute), Mose, Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), the Dutchman and Macbeth (Macbeth by Sciarrino). As a concert singer Sorin Coliban has sung in works by Mendelssohn (Elijah), Bach (St Matthew Passion), Verdi (Requiem), Mahler (8th Symphony, Pater Profundus), Beethoven (9th Symphony), performing in Bucharest, Tel Aviv, Lyon and Dresden. Since 2004 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper and State Opera, where he has appeared in the following roles: Archelaos Zemlinsky's (Der König Kandaules), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Uncle Bonze (Madama Butterfly), Müller (Irrelohe), Zuniga (Carmen) as well as the Speaker of the Temple (The Magic Flute), Bartolo (Marriage of Figaro), Friedrich Engel (Der Evangelimann) and Konrad Nachtigall (Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Timur in the new production of Turandot, Eremit in the new production of Der Freischütz, the Farmer in the new production of Orff's Die Kluge, Tommaso in the new production of Tiefland by D´Albert, Basilio in the new production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, Fra Melitone in La forza del destino as well as Capulet in Romeo et Juliette. In 2007 Coliban sang Sarastro in the new production of The Magic Flute at the Mozart Festival La Coruna in Spain. One year later he sang Il Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Festwochen in Gmunden. In 2009 he will be making his his debut at the Bregenz Festival as Ramphis in Aida. In the seasons to come Sorin Coliban's distinctive and powerful voice will be heard in a broad range of roles at the Vienna State Opera.