TAISTO NOOR

Taisto Noor graduated from the Tallinn Conservatorium in the class of Linda Saul in 1977 and has been an opera soloist in the Vanemuine since then.

His roles include Leporello, Figaro, Osmin, don Alfonso and Sarastro (Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Cosi fan tutte and The Magic Flute), Bartolo and Mustafa (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and The Italian Girl in Algiers), Sparafucile and Horn (Verdi’s Rigoletto and A Masked Ball), Raimondo (Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor), Don Pasquale and Dulcamara (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and The Elixir of Love), Mephistopheles (Gounod’s Faust), Peter (Orffi’s The Moon), Duke Bluebeard (Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle), Don Inigo Gomez (Ravel’s The Spanish Hour), Higgins (Loewe’s My Fair Lady), Porgy (Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess), Cervantes/Don Quijote (Leigh’s Man of La Mancha), Karl Stefan Liebenberg (Kalman’s Countess Mariza) and Kaifas (Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar). Noor has also performed in solo concerts and sung solo parts in performances of major works. In the Vanemuine, Noor has produced Puccini’s Sister Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s La Traviata, Falstaff and Rigoletto, Rossini`s Bill of Marriage and Menotti’s The Telephone.

He received the annual award of the Estonian Theatre Society in 1981, the Georg Ots Award in 1985 and the annual award of the Estonian Theatre Union in 1991. He has been awarded the 5th Class Order of the White Star.