Airike Kolk

(soprano)

EDUCATION AND WORK

Airike Kolk is a singer in the Estonian National Opera Chorus. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2002, the singing class of Urve Tauts and Matti Pelo).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Airike Kolk was awarded the title of “The most promising young singer” in 1996 at the 1st Klaudia Taev International Competition for Young Singers.

REPERTOIRE

Maret (Raadik’s “The Truth and Justice of Vargamäe”)

Clarina (Rossini’s “La cambiale di matrimonio”, Vanemuine Theatre)

Mercédès (Bizet’s “Carmen”, PromFest 2007)

Myrtale (Massenet’s “Thaïs”, PromFest 2009)

Catherine (Gounod’s “Faust”)

Lucia (Ábrahám’s “Ball im Savoy”)

Grandmother Tzeitel (Bock’s “Fiddler on the Roof”)

Soprano parts in:

Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols”

Mozart’s Requiem

Charpentier’s “Te Deum”

Rachmaninov’s “Vespers”