Urve Tauts (born 2 November 1935 in Pärnu) is an Estonian opera singer (mezzo-soprano).[1]

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In 1963, she graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in singing specialty.[1]

1960–2001, she was the soloist in Estonian National Opera.[1]

1974–1978, she taught singing at Georg Ots Tallinn Music School and 1978–2002 at Tallinn State Conservatory (later Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre).[1]

Awards

• 1968 Honoured Worker in Arts of Estonian SSR[1]
• 1969 Annual Theatre Award[1]
• 1974 People's Artist of Estonian SSR[1]
• 1980 Georg Ots Prize[1]

Operatic roles

During her long stage career, she has performed over 70 stage characters.[1]

Her operatic roles:[1]

• Voice of Antonia's Mother (Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, 1957 and 1988)
• Cherubino (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, 1958)
• Lyubasha (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, 1959)
• Katharina (Vissarion Shebalin's The Taming of the Shrew, 1960)
• Ulrica (Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in maschera, 1961 and 1985)
• Emilia (Giuseppe Verdi's Othello, 1963)
• Carmen (Georges Bizet's Carmen, 1963 and 1982)
• Suzuki (Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, 1963 and 1991)
• 3rd Lady (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, 1964 and 1991)
• Amneris (Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, 1964)
• Iige (Eino Tamberg's Iron Home, 1965)
• Olga (Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, 1966)
• Filipyevana (Pyotr Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, 1986 and 2000)
• Azucena (Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore, 1967 and 1993)
• Maddalena (Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, 1968)
• Laura (Amilcare Ponchielli's Gioconda, 1969)
• Anna von Tödwen (Eduard Tubin's Barbara von Tisenhusen, 1969 and 1990)
• Céline (Dmitry Kabalebsky's Colas Breugnon, 1970)
• Octavian (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, 1970)
• Eboli (Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos, 1971)
• Frugola, The Princess, Zita (Giacomo Puccini's Il trittico: Il tabarro, 1972; Sour Angelica 1972; Gianni Schicchi, 1972 and 1997)
• Judith (Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, concert performance, 1972)
• Felicia (Leo Normet's Pear Tree, 1973)
• Herodias (Richard Strauss's Salome, 1973)
• Flora (Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, 1974)
• Roxane's duenna (Eino Tamberg's Cyrano de Bergerac, 1976)
• Santuzza (Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, 1978)
• Female voice (Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine, 1978)
• The Marquise of Berkenfield (Gaetano Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, 1979)
• Nurse (Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, 1980, 1985 and 2001)
• The Innkeeper (Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, 1980 and 1985)
• Federica (Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller, 1981)
• Háta (Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, 1983)
• Duneya (Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery, 1982)
• Mary (Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, 1984)
• Mrs. Lippe (Alo Põldmäe's Town Hall Opera, 1986)
• Marfa (Modest Mussorgsky's Hovanshchina, 1987)
• Kristi (Eduard Tubin's The Parson of Reigi, 1988)
• Marta (Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, 1988)
• Woman (Aulis Sallinen's The Horseman, 1991)
• Mrs. Herring (Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, 1993)
• Czipra (Johann Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron, 1993)
• Berta (Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, 1994)
• Anhilte (Imre Kálmán's Silva, 1995)
• Nan (Olav Ehala's The Imp, 1999)
• Countess Ceprano (Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, 2003)

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