Väino Puura

(baritone)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Väino Puura graduated from Tartu Music School in 1973 (the class of Ivo Kuusk) and Tallinn State Conservatory in 1978 (the class of Viktor Gurjev). He has also studied in Moscow State Conservatory and the Opera Studio of Teatro La Scala. In 1971–1973, he sung in the chorus of Vanemuine Theatre. Väino Puura is the soloist of the Estonian National Opera since 1976. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 1979 he has won the second prize at the M. Glinka International Competition of Opera Singers and was awarded with the Georg Ots Prize in 1999.

REPERTOIRE
Figaro and Almaviva (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)
Guglielmo (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”) 
Papageno (Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte”)
Giorgio Germont (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Renato (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)
Miller (Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”) 
Di Posa (Verdi’s “Don Carlo”)
Enrico (Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”) 
Belcore (Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”)
Marcello (Puccini’s “La bohème”)
Figaro (Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”)
Escamillo (Bizet’s “Carmen”)
Onegin (Tchaikovsky’s “Eugen Onegin”)
Lescaut (Massenet’s “Manon”)
Don Ferdinand (Prokofiev’s “Betrothal in a Monastery”)
Magician Celio (Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges”)
The King (Orff’s “Die Kluge”)
Danilo (Lehár’s “Die lustige Witwe”) 
René (Lehár’s “Graf von Luxemburg”)
Daphne (Styne’s “Sugar”) 
Colonel Pickering (Loewe’s “My Fair Lady”)
Feri (Kálmán’s “Die Csardasfürstin”)
Aristide de Faublas and Archibald (Ábrahám’s “Ball im Savoy”)