Annely Peebo is a mezzo-soprano from Estonia. She gained a diploma for choral conducting and completed vocal studies in song and opera class. She also studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts (http://www.mdw.ac.at/docs/_parent/start_vorstellung.htm) Austria, where she also started her singing career in 1997. That was the year she became a permanent ensemble member of the Volksoper Wien (http://www.volksoper.at/). She sang in Rigoletto and many other opera roles.

At the Vienna Festival Weeks (http://www.festwochen.at/) (Wiener Festwochen) 2001, Peebo sang the role of Meroe in the first performance of the expressionistic opera, Penthesilea (http://www.staatstheater-cottbus.de/Repertoire/Beschreibungen/Penthesile.html) by Othmar Schoeck (after Heinrich von Kleist). At the Salzburg Festival 2002, she performed works by Mozart and Gershwin. She also performed together with Plácido Domingo, Renato Bruson (http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node2/home/ensemble/2391.php), and Stefania Bonfadelli (http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node2/home/ensemble/2313.php).

Annely Peebo speaks five languages. That resulted not only in playing the main musical character in the French movie production of Les leçons de ténèbres, but also in hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2002.

Links

• Peebo profile at the Volksoper (http://www.volksoper.at/Content.Node2/home/ensemble/4098.php)
• hoertnagel biosketch (http://www.hoertnagel.com/peebo.htm)
• allegroartist biosketch (http://www.allegroartist.com/inhalt/artistroster/mezzos/a-peebo/deutsch.html)