Merit Kraav

(soprano)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Merit Kraav began classical singing studies in Tartu Heino Eller Music School with Karmen Puis and graduated in 2017. In 2020, she obtained her BA in singing from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (the class of Heli Veskus). In 2022, she obtained her MA cum laude. Kraav has participated in the masterclasses of Anne Schwanewilms, Jörg Dürmüller, Christine Morgan, Hermann Keckeis and Marilyn Rees. In 2019, she debuted in the Estonian National Opera as Barbarina in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” (in cooperation with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). 

REPERTOIRE
Barbarina (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)
Serpetta (Mozart’s “La finta giardiniera”)
Yniold (Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande”)
Mercédès (Bizet’s “Carmen”)

Soloist parts in oratorios:
Vivaldi’s “Gloria”
Buxtehude’s “Membra Jesu Nostri”
 

Photo: Gethe Maria Eljas