TÕNU KATTAI

Tõnu Kattai started as a choir singer in the Vanemuine in 1971 and from 1979 has been an opera singer here.

His roles in the Vanemuine have included: Stanislaus (Zeller’s The Bird Seller), Yamadori/Goro, Parpignol and Spoletta (Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, La Bohéme and Tosca), Borsa, Gaston/Joseph, Bardolfo, Judge and Roderigo (Verdi’s Rigoletto, La Traviata, Falstaff, A Masked Ball and Othello), Hansel and Witch (Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel), Juan (Massenet's Don Quijote), Old Faust (Gounod’s Faust), Fiorello (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville), Triquet (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Mirko Zeta (Lehar’s The Merry Widow), Pipo de Frascatti, Louis Philippe/Dewa Singh and Peniček (Kálmán’s The Violets from Montmartre, The Bayadere and Countess Mariza), Eisenstein and Bartolomeo Delaqua (Strauss’ The Bat and A Night in Venice), Janczy (Abraham’s Victoria and her Hussar), Emile (Friml-Stothart’s Rose Marie), Sancho Panza (Leigh’s Man of La Mancha), Joe (Styne’s Some Like It Hot) and Krupke (Bernstein’s West Side Story).

He has taken part in many drama productions and appeared in films and productions by Eesti Telefilm. These include: Savoy Ball, Santa Susanna or the School of Masters (Püha Susanna ehk Meistrite kool), Narva Waterfall (Narva Kosk), The Ballad of Two Homes (Kahe kodu ballaad), Theatre Delusions (Teatriluulud) and The Joys of Being Middle-Aged (Keskea rõõmud).