Rauno Elp

(baritone)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Rauno Elp is a soloist of the Estonian National Opera since 1992. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 2007 he won the scholarship of the Estonian Richard Wagner Society, in 2016 he won the Annual Estonian Theatre Award for the powerful and convincing interpretation of the title role in Hindemith’s opera “Cardillac” and in 2019 the SEB Audience Award.

REPERTOIRE
Rigoletto (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”)
Germont (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Renato (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)
Rodrigo (Verdi’s “Don Carlo”)
Iago (Verdi’s “Otello”)
Amonasro (Verdi’s “Aida”)
Count di Luna (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)
Giacomo (Verdi’s “Giovanna d'Arco”)
Holländer (Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer”)
Wolfram (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”)
Amfortas (Wagner’s “Parsifal”)
Kurwenal (Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”) 
Friedrich von Telramund (Wagner’s “Lohengrin”)
Grigory Gryaznoy (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride”)
Valentin (Gounod’s “Faust”)
Capuletti (Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet”)
Don Giovanni (Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”)
Count Almaviva (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”) 
Guglielmo (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”)
Scarpia (Puccini "Tosca“)
Marcello (Puccini’s “La bohème”)
Jack Rance (Puccini’s “La fanciulla del West”)
Gianni Schichhi (Puccini “Gianni Schicchi”)
Lescaut (Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut”)
Sharpless (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Dulcamara and Belcore (Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”)
Cardillac (Hindemith’s “Cardillac”)
Roderick (Hindemith’s “The Long Christmas Dinner”)
Don Magnifico (Rossini’s “La Cenerentola”)
Argante (Händel’s “Rinaldo”)
Yeletsky (Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”)
Cyrano (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”)
Father Kaarel (Puur’s “The Colours of Clouds”)
Wallenberg (Tüür’s “Wallenberg”)
Doctor (Kangro’s “Heart”)
Jürgen (Tubin’s “Barbara von Tisenhusen”)
Theodor/Hamlet (T. Kõrvits’ “Butterfly”)
Weps (Zeller’s “The Bird Seller”) 
Vicomte Cascada (Lehár’s “The Merry Widow”)
Mossbeard (Kaumann/Keller’s “The Three Jolly Fellows”)
Jupiter (Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld”)
Zuniga (Bizet’s “Carmen”)