MÄRT JAKOBSON

Märt Jakobson graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in the singing class of Mati Palm and Raimond Alango in 1998. Since 1997 he has been working as an opera soloist in the Vanemuine. In 1999 and 2000 he studied as a fellow of the Estonian National Culture Foundation in the Maria Theatre in St. Petersburg.

His roles in the Estonian National Opera have been Cadet (Tamberg’s Cyrano de Bergerac), Antonio (Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro) and Pristav (Mussorgski’s Boriss Godunov). In the St. Petersburg Maria Theatre he has played Antonio (Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro), and in Pärnu Opera Monterone (Verdi’s Rigoletto). His Vanemuine roles have included Basilio (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville), Raimondo (Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor), Lodovico, Montano, Doctor and Count Ribbing (Verdi’s Othello, A Masked Ball and La Traviata), Colline, Alcindor, Prison Guard and Bonza (Puccini’s La Bohème, Tosca and Madame Butterfly), Watchman (Nielsen’s Masquerade), Rotnõi (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Badger (Lusens’ Dr Dolittle and the Birds’ Opera), Henry Murger (Kalman’s The Violets from Montmartre), Karl Stephan Liebenberg (Kálmán’s Countess Mariza), Alessio (Bellini’s La Sonnambula), Sarastro (Mozart`s The Magic Flute), Polyphemus (Handel`s Acis and Galatea) and Norton (Rossini`s The Bill of Marriage), Sclemil/Crespel/Luther (Offenbach`s The Tales of Hoffmann), Sparafucile (Verdi`s Rigoletto). He has performed in concerts in Estonia, Finland, Poland and Russia. He has also appeared in the film “Sick of Everything” (directed by P. Simm).