Lauri Vasar

Lauri Vasar (born October 17, 1970 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian opera singer ( bass baritone ).

Life

Lauri Vasar comes from an Estonian family of musicians: his father Harri Vasar (1926–1994) was a well-known operetta tenor, his mother Ülla Millistfer is a pianist and concertmaster at the Estonia National Opera. Vasar received violin lessons from the age of 5 and played as a violist in Tallinn Chamber orchestra. It was only at the age of 21 that he began to study singing at the Estonian Music Academy in Tallinn, which he completed with a diploma in viola and singing. He then studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Lilian Sukis until 1999 . Finally he was awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation .

At the beginning of his career Lauri Vasar was a member of the ensemble at the Landestheater Linz . In 2003 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival . In 2006 the Vienna State Opera awarded him the Eberhard Wächter Medal for his Orfeo interpretation. In 2007 Vasar left the Linz Opera and, after a stopover at the Hanover Opera , was engaged at the Hamburg State Opera from the 2009/10 to 2014/15 season . Guest engagements have taken him to international opera houses in Zurich , Milan , Paris , London , Barcelona , Madrid , Brussels and the Salzburg Festival . He has a close artistic relationship with Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.

Guest performances also took him to the Theater an der Wien and Frankfurt a. M. and to Düsseldorf .

His repertoire includes the Wagner roles of Amfortas , Wolfram , Günther and Donner , the Count of Gloster in Lear, as well as the title roles from Eugene Onegin , Don Giovanni , Le Nozze di Figaro , Billy Budd and Marcello from La Bohème , Papageno, Sprecher, Conte, Guglielmo, Belcore, Escamillo , Chtchelkalov Schaklowity .

Web links

Commons : Lauri Vasar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lauri Vasar homepage
• Lauri Vasar at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Lauri Vasar agency profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Albrecht: Lauri Vasar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   on the website of the Association of Friends of Linz Music Theater . Heading now in Linz from the 2002/2003 season. (Retrieved January 6, 2011.)
2. ↑ Biography Lauri Vasar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   on the website of the Hamburg State Opera . (Retrieved January 6, 2011.)
3. ↑ Medal award : Lilli Lehmann Medal, Bernhard Paumgartner Medal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Events and news of the Mozarteum University Salzburg from December 1999. (Accessed January 6, 2011.)  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Lauri Vasar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Hilbert artist agency. (Retrieved January 6, 2011.)