Rasmus Kull

Photo: Elli Koidula Kull

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Rasmus Kull has been a soloist at the Vanemuine since 2008. He graduated from the Heino Eller Music School in 2011 and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in classical singing in 2014. In 2022 he completed the master’s programme at the Academy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from the University of Tartu and a master’s in phonetics and sociolinguistics from the University of Glasgow, earned in 2006 and 2008 respectively. Kull has performed as a soloist and choir member in the Vanemuine’s music productions. He has also taken part in professors Märtson and Schmalcz’ master classes on German lied, and Professor Jenny Anvelt’s opera master class.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 2019, Kull was awarded the Annual Estonian Theatre Award for the titular role in Sondheim’s musical “Sweeney Todd” and the role of Josef in Strauss’s operetta “Wiener Blut”.

ROLES IN VANEMUINE
Honour, Comus, Sailor (Purcell’s “King Arthur”)
Pang (Puccini’s “Turandot”)
Goro (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Sesto (Händel’s “Giulio Cesare”)
Ragueneau (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”)
Uncle, Ilsen’s cat (Sundja and Aints’s “Sipsik”)
Neighbour (Kaumann’s “The Mall”)
Ants (Varres’s “The New Old Nick of Hellsbottom”)
Shepherd (Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”)
Don Ottavio (Mozart’s Don Giovanni”)
Buff (Mozart’s “The Impresario”)
Intendant (Donizetti’s “Linda di Chamounix”)
Eddie (Menken’s “Sister Act”)
Sweeney Todd (Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”)
Josef  (Strauss’s “Wiener Blut”)
Eisenstein (Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”)
Enjolras (Schönberg/Boulblil’s “Les Misérables”)
Soldier (Lill’s “Into the Fire”)
Mozart (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Mozart and Salieri”)
Albert (Pajusaar’s “Lotte in the Dream World”)
Remendado (Bizet’s “Carmen”)
Karius (Sisask’s “Karius and Bactus”)
Henn (Tubin’s “The Parson of Reigi”)
Monsieur Reyer (Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera”)
Jaan (Aints’s “The Old Barney”)
Schmidt (Massenet’s “Werther”)
Rolf (Rodgers/Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music”)
Kusti (Ehala’s “Bumpy”)
Spoletta (Puccini’s “Tosca”)
Kromow (Lehár’s “The Merry Widow”)