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Taavi Tampuu
Taavi Tampuu (baritone) graduated in 2001 from the Karlsruhe University of Music with a degree in singing and music education, and in 2004, he completed a degree in opera singing at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Biography
From the Ondine artist archive. Appointments and season references reflect the original biography.
Since 2002, he has performed various roles at the Estonian National Opera and Vanemuine Theatre. His recent performances include Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (2021), Antonio in Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix (2021), Melot in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (2022), Student in Kaumann’s Department Store (2022), and Captain Carbon de Castel-Jaloux in Tamberg’s Cyrano de Bergerac (2023). In autumn 2019, he performed the role of Jonah in Rudolf Tobias’s oratorio Jonah at the opening celebrations of the new concert hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Tampuu has an active career as an oratorio and concert singer. Since 2009, he has worked as an associate professor at the Department of Classical Music Performance of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and since 2012, he has taught classical singing at the Heino Eller Tartu Music School.