Jassi Zahharov

(baritone)

WORK
Jassi Zahharov was the soloist of the Vanemuine Theatre in 1980–1997. Since 1997, he is the soloist of the Estonian National Opera.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jassi Zahharov won the Georg Ots Prize in 1994, the Great Bear Prize in 1996, the Cultural Endowment of Tartu yearly scholarship in 1996, the annual Prize of Cultural Endowment of Estonian in 2001, the SEB Audience Award 2012 and 2016, the Annual Estonian Theatre Award 2015 and in 2023, he was awarded the Order of the White Star Class IV.

REPERTOIREScarpia (Puccini’s “Tosca”)
Sonora (Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West”)
Gianni Schichhi (Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi”)
Lescaut (Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut)
Bonzo (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Father Kaarel (Puur’s “The Colours of Clouds”)
Giorgio Germont (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Baron Weps (Zeller’s “The Bird Seller”)
Biterolf (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”)
Herald (Wagner’s “Lohengrin”)
Count de Guiche (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”)
Papa Carlo (Ehala’s “Buratino”)
Rigoletto (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”) 
Macbeth (Verdi’s “Macbeth”) 
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra”) 
Nabucco (Verdi’s “Nabucco”) 
Falstaff (Verdi’s “Falstaff”) 
Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov”) 
Iago (Verdi’s “Otello”)
Amonasro (Verdi’s “Aida”)
Count di Luna (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)
Renato (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)
Escamillo (Bizet’s “Carmen”)
Jochanaan (R. Strauss’ “Salome”)
Tonio (Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci”)
Tomsky (Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”)
Pearu (Raadik’s “The Truth and Justice of Vargamäe”)
Reinhold von Tisenhusen (Tubin’s “Barbara von Tisenhusen”)
German Officer (Tüür’s “Wallenberg”)
Sergius Wladimir (Kálmán’s “Die Zirkusprinzessin”)
Count von Krolock (Steinman’s “Dance of the Vampires”) 
Jean Valjean (Boublil/Schönberg’s “Les Miserables”) 
Baron Mirko Zeta (Lehár’s “The Merry Widow”)
Inspector (Kaumann/Keller’s “The Three Jolly Fellows”)
Herr Schultz (Kander’s “Cabaret“)