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Urve Tauts (born 2 November 1935 in Pärnu) is an Estonian opera singer (mezzo-soprano).[1]
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In 1963, she graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in singing specialty.[1]
1960–2001, she was the soloist in Estonian National Opera.[1]
1974–1978, she taught singing at Georg Ots Tallinn Music School and 1978–2002 at Tallinn State Conservatory (later Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre).[1]
Awards
editOperatic roles
editDuring her long stage career, she has performed over 70 stage characters.[1]
Her operatic roles:[1]
- Voice of Antonia's Mother (Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, 1957 and 1988)
- Cherubino (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, 1958)
- Lyubasha (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, 1959)
- Katharina (Vissarion Shebalin's The Taming of the Shrew, 1960)
- Ulrica (Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in maschera, 1961 and 1985)
- Emilia (Giuseppe Verdi's Othello, 1963)
- Carmen (Georges Bizet's Carmen, 1963 and 1982)
- Suzuki (Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, 1963 and 1991)
- 3rd Lady (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, 1964 and 1991)
- Amneris (Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, 1964)
- Iige (Eino Tamberg's Iron Home, 1965)
- Olga (Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, 1966)
- Filipyevana (Pyotr Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, 1986 and 2000)
- Azucena (Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore, 1967 and 1993)
- Maddalena (Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, 1968)
- Laura (Amilcare Ponchielli's Gioconda, 1969)
- Anna von Tödwen (Eduard Tubin's Barbara von Tisenhusen, 1969 and 1990)
- Céline (Dmitry Kabalebsky's Colas Breugnon, 1970)
- Octavian (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, 1970)
- Eboli (Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos, 1971)
- Frugola, The Princess, Zita (Giacomo Puccini's Il trittico: Il tabarro, 1972; Sour Angelica 1972; Gianni Schicchi, 1972 and 1997)
- Judith (Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, concert performance, 1972)
- Felicia (Leo Normet's Pear Tree, 1973)
- Herodias (Richard Strauss's Salome, 1973)
- Flora (Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, 1974)
- Roxane's duenna (Eino Tamberg's Cyrano de Bergerac, 1976)
- Santuzza (Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, 1978)
- Female voice (Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine, 1978)
- The Marquise of Berkenfield (Gaetano Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, 1979)
- Nurse (Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, 1980, 1985 and 2001)
- The Innkeeper (Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, 1980 and 1985)
- Federica (Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller, 1981)
- Háta (Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, 1983)
- Duneya (Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery, 1982)
- Mary (Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, 1984)
- Mrs. Lippe (Alo Põldmäe's Town Hall Opera, 1986)
- Marfa (Modest Mussorgsky's Hovanshchina, 1987)
- Kristi (Eduard Tubin's The Parson of Reigi, 1988)
- Marta (Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, 1988)
- Woman (Aulis Sallinen's The Horseman, 1991)
- Mrs. Herring (Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, 1993)
- Czipra (Johann Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron, 1993)
- Berta (Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, 1994)
- Anhilte (Imre Kálmán's Silva, 1995)
- Nan (Olav Ehala's The Imp, 1999)
- Countess Ceprano (Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, 2003)