Märt Jakobson
(bass)
EDUCATION AND WORK
Märt Jakobson graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 1998 (Mati Palm and Raimond Alango singing classes). Since 1997, he is an opera soloist at the Vanemuine Theatre. During 1999–2000, he studied at Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as the grantee of the Estonian National Culture Foundation and in 2006–2007 at the Estonian Music and Theatre Academy with Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen. He was the soloist of the Estonian National Opera in the season 2008/09.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 2022, Jakobson received the Annual Estonian Theatre Award for the role of Ferrando in Verdi’s opera “Il trovatore”.
REPERTOIRE
Estonian National Opera:
Daland (Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman”)
Malyuta Skuratov (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride”)
Monterone and Count Ceprano (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”)
Count Ribbing (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)
Ferrando (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)
Father Laurence (Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet”)
Wagner (Gounod’s “Faust”)
Celio (Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges”)
Ashby (Puccini’s “La fanciulla del West”)
Sciarrone (Puccini’s “Tosca”)
Surin (Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”)
Cadet (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”)
Bartolo and Antonio (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)
Sarastro (Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”)
Pristav (Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov”)
Ephraim Longstocking (Vinter’s/Raudmäe’s “Pippi Longstocking”)
Other theatres:
Antonio (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg)
Grand Inquisitor (Verdi’s “Don Carlo”, Tampere Opera)
Monterone (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, Pärnu Opera)
Theatre Vanemuine:
Basilio (Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”)
Norton (Rossini’s “The Bill of Marriage”)
Raimondo (Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”)
Lodovico and Montano (Verdi’s “Otello”)
Count Ribbing (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)
Doctor (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Ferrando (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)
Colline and Alcindoro (Puccini’s “La bohéme”)
Prison Guard (Puccini’s “Tosca”)
Bonzo (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Night Guard (Nielsen’s “Masquerade”)
Badger (Lusens’ “Dr. Doolittle or the Birds’ Opera”)
Henry Murger (Kálmán’s “Das Veilchen vom Montmartre”)
Karl Stephan Liebenberg (Kálmán’s “Countess Mariza”)
Sarastro (Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte”)
Polyphemus (Händel’s “Acis and Galatea”)
Amadeus (J. Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”)