Jassi Zahharov

(baritone)

 

WORK

Jassi Zahharov was the soloist of the Vanemuine Theatre in 1980–1997. Since 1997, he is the soloist of the Estonian National Opera.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Jassi Zahharov won the Georg Ots Prize in 1994, the Great Bear Prize in 1996, the Cultural Endowment of Tartu yearly scholarship in 1996, the annual Prize of Cultural Endowment of Estonian in 2001, the SEB Audience Award 2012 and 2016, and the Annual Estonian Theatre Award 2015.

 

REPERTOIRE

Rigoletto (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”)

Macbeth (Verdi’s “Macbeth”)

Simon Boccanegra (Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra”)

Nabucco (Verdi’s “Nabucco”)

Falstaff (Verdi’s “Falstaff”)

Iago (Verdi’s “Otello”)

Amonasro (Verdi’s “Aida”)

Count di Luna (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)

Renato (Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”)

Giorgio Germont (Verdi’s “La traviata”)

Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov”)

Scarpia (Puccini’s “Tosca”)

Sonora (Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West”)

Gianni Schichhi (Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi”)

Lescaut (Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut)

Biterolf (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”)

Father Kaarel (Puur’s “The Colours of Clouds”)

Count de Guiche (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”)

Escamillo (Bizet’s “Carmen”)

Jochanaan (R. Strauss’ “Salome”)

Tonio (Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci”)

Tomsky (Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”)

Papa Carlo (Ehala’s “Buratino”)

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

Reinhold von Tisenhusen (Tubin’s “Barbara von Tisenhusen”)

German Officer (Tüür’s “Wallenberg”)

Sergius Wladimir (Kálmán’s “Die Zirkusprinzessin”)

Baron Weps (Zeller’s “The Bird Seller”)

Count von Krolock (Steinman’s “Dance of the Vampires”)

Jean Valjean (Boublil/Schönberg’s “Les Miserables”)