Simo Breede

(baritone)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Simo Breede studied at Heino Eller Tartu Music School. In 2009, he made his soloist debut at Savonlinna Opera Festival with a minor role as L’imperial commissario in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”. From 2009 to 2010 he studied in Rome in The St Cecilia Conservatory and between 2010 and 2011 he was part of the young soloists’ opera academy of the Estonian National Opera. In 2011, he received his MA from the Music and Theatre Academy of Estonia. Since 2013, he is a soloist with Vanemuine Theatre.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 2009, he was given the title “Singer of the Year” by Savonlinna Opera Chorus. In the same year he received the Naan Põld young singers’ scholarship. In 2012, he received Bayreuth Scholarship from the Estonian branch of the International Richard Wagner Association.

REPERTOIRE
In Vanemuine Theatre:
Pritschitsch (Lehár’s “Die lustige Witwe”)
The Imperial Commissionaire (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Maurice (Disney/Menken’s “Beauty and the Beast”)
Jonas (Quentin/Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”)
Josef (Strauss’ “Wiener Blut”)
Daddy (Aints’ “Guugelmuugeldotcom”)
Snow Man (Aints’ “The Old Barny”)
Soldier (Lill’s “Into the Fire”)
Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Mozart and Salieri”)
Adalbert (Pajusaar’s “Lotte in Dream World”) 
Oskar, Dragon Otto (Pajusaar’s “Detective Lotte”)
Väino, Tik the Moon Rabbit (Pajusaar’s “Lotte the Cosmonaut”)
Dancairo (Bizet’s “Carmen”)
Bactus (Urmas Sisask’s “Karius and Bactus”)
Zaretsky (Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”)
City guard (Tubin’s “The Parson of Reigi”)
Monsieur Reyer, Joseph Buquet (Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera”)
Johann (Massenet’s “Werther”)
Drunk poet, Coridon, Bottom (Purcell’s “Fairy Queen”)
Robertson Ay, Northbrook (Disney/Mackintosh’s “Mary Poppins”)
Ernst Ludwig (Kander/Ebb/Masteroff’s “Cabaret”)

In other theatres:
Argante (Händel’s “Rinaldo”) 
Aeneas (Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”) 
Marullo (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”) 
Dancairo, Remendado and Lillas Pastia (Bizet’s “Carmen”)
Gherardo (Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi”)
Don Anchise (Mozart’s “La finta giardiniera”) 
Meter (M. Mattiesen’s “DMeter”)