Shinobu Sato

Shinobu Sato appeared in the chorus concert State Opera Rousse gave at Solothurn on 30 June 2009, in a line-up that also included Olga Savova, Vladimir Petrov, Noemi Nadelmann and Jana Bernathova. Shinobu Sato (1958-2019) made her European debut in the title role of Tosca at the Bratislava Festival in 1988 and sang Micaela in Carmen at the Wiener Staatsoper in 1993, returning there in November 1998 for her first Cio-Cio-San, a role she repeated in Cologne in 1999, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2000 and at Den Norske Opera in 2002. She sang Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis in 1991 and Verdi's Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Vier letzte Lieder with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Eliahu Inbal in 2001, Giulietta in Les contes d'Hoffmann at the New National Theatre in Tokyo in 2003 and Lulu there in 2004, and Desdemona in Otello with the Sofia National Opera, in Sofia and in Japan, in 2005.