Urve Tauts

Urve Tauts (born 2 November 1935 in Pärnu) is an Estonian opera singer (mezzo-soprano).[1]

Enn Eesmaa, Urve Tauts and Margarita Voites in 1980

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
  • 1968 Honoured Worker in Arts of Estonian SSR[1]
  • 1969 Annual Theatre Award[1]
  • 1974 People's Artist of Estonian SSR[1]
  • 1980 Georg Ots Prize[1]

Operatic roles

During 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)

References
  1. "Tauts, Urve | Estonian Music Information Centre". www.emic.ee. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
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