Heli Veskus
(soprano)
EDUCATION AND WORK
Heli Veskus graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music (teacher L. Dombrovska-Keis) in 1997 and from the Sibelius Academy (teacher A. Välkki-Aro) in 2010. In 1998, Heli Veskus was the finalist of Con Brio competition. She debuted at the Estonian National Opera as Donna Elvira (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) in 1999. Since 2001 she is a soloist of the Estonian National Opera.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 2003, Heli Veskus received the Harjumaa Theatre Prize, in 2004 the Estonian Theatre Award for the title role in Tubin’s “Barbara von Tisenhusen”, in 2008 the Georg Ots Prize, in 2016 the SEB Audience Award and in 2017 the Annual Estonian Theatre Award for the psychological and musically detailed interpretations of Aida and Senta in Verdi’s “Aida” and Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman”. She is also the winner of the scholarship of the Estonian Richard Wagner Society (2005).
REPERTOIRE
Tosca (“Puccini’s Tosca”)
Senta (Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer”)
Elisabeth and Venus (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”)
Minnie (Puccini’s “La fanciulla del West”)
Mimi (Puccini’s “La bohème”)
Countess Almaviva (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)
Domna Saburova (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride”)
Isolde (Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”)
Manon (Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut”)
Aida (Verdi’s “Aida”)
Desdemona (Verdi’s “Otello”)
Leonora (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)
Amelia (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)
Tatyana (Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”)
The Lady (Hindemith’s “Cardillac”)
Fiordiligi (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”)
Agathe (Weber’s “Der Freischütz”)
Micaëla (Bizet’s “Carmen”)
Nedda (Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci”)
Antonia (Offenbach’s “Les contes d’Hoffmann”)
Diana (Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld”)
Die Kluge (Orff’s “Die Kluge”)
Barbara (Tubin’s “Barbara von Tisenhusen”)
Wally (Catalani “La Wally”, concert performance)
Helmwige (Wagner’s “Die Walküre”, Finnish National Opera)
Old Aliide (Reinvere’s “Purge”, Finnish National Opera)
Grose (Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw”)
Hanna Glawari (Lehár’s “Die lustige Witwe”)
Franziska Cagliari and Countess Gabriele Zedlau (Strauss’ “Wiener Blut”)
Rosalinde (“Die Fledermaus” by J. Strauss)
Liisu (Steiner’s “Wooing”)
Mother (Kaumann’s “Me – Napoleon!”)
Mare (Villem Kapp’s “Lembitu”, concert performance)
She has given many solo concerts with the pianist Janika Rand-Sirp and has participated in various oratorio performances:
Mozart’s Requiem
Mozart’s “Mass in C-major”
Mozart’s “Coronation Mass”
Beethoven’s “Mass in C-major”
Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis”
Dvorak’s “Requiem”