Colette Lorand | |
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| Born | Colette Grauaug 7 January 1923 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Died | 26 April 2019 (aged 96) |
| Education | Musikhochschule Hannover |
| Occupation | Operatic soprano |
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Colette Lorand (7 January 1923 – 26 April 2019) was a Swiss operatic soprano who made an international career. Known as a coloratura soprano, she created several roles in world premieres, including Sibylle in Carl Orff's De temporum fine comoedia in 1973 at the Salzburg Festival, and Regan in Aribert Reimann's Lear at the Nationaltheater München in 1978, also in the French premiere of this opera in Paris in 1982.[1]