Juuli Lill
b. September 21, 1978 TallinnMember of the Estonian Theatre Union since 2006
Juuli Lill has studied singing at the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (1999–2001) with Prof. Iraida Levanda and at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2001–2005) with Prof. Mati Palm. She obtained her MA from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2009 (the singing class of Prof. Mati Palm). In 2004–2006 she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Leopold Spitzer and has attended the master classes of Gotcha Bezutshvili in Tbilisi and Lucy Arner and Ira Siff in New York.
During 2002–2003 she sung in the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Since 2006 she is the soloist of the Estonian National Opera and has participated in Nargen Opera projects. She has performed as a chamber singer and has been a soloist in larger scale vocal works (Saint-Saëns’s Christmas Oratorio, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky), participated in gala concerts (e.g. Opera and Jazz, We Love Good Music, Cinema à la Russe), Kuressaare Opera Days (now known as Saaremaa Opera Festival) and the Pärnu international opera festival PromFest. Lill has also been a voice actor for animated films: Oranus and Crocodile (2009), Villa Antropoff (2012) and Piano (2015). She has furthermore played in a student film Witches Loaves (2012).
Repertoire:
Carmen and Mercédès (Bizet’s Carmen)
Brangäne (Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde)
Mary (Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer)
Dorabella (Mozart’s Così fan tutte)
Cherubino (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro)
Third Lady (Mozart’s The Magic Flute)
Ulrica (Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera)
Maddalena and Giovanna (Verdi’s Rigoletto)
Annina (Verdi’s La traviata)
Ines (Verdi’s Il trovatore)
Lisetta (Haydn’s Il mondo della luna)
Cornelia (Händel’s Julius Caesar)
Siébel (Gounod’s Faust)
Tisbe (Rossini’s La Cenerentola)
Wowkle (Puccini’s La fanciulla del West)
Singer (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut)
Dunyasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Countess (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades)
Smeraldina (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Filipyevna and Olga (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin)
Maria (Puur’s The Colours of Clouds)
Miss Bock (Aint’s/Wimberg’s Karlsson on the Roof)
Third Diplomat (Tüür’s Wallenberg)
Journalist (Vihmand’s The Formula of Love)
Tangolita (Ábrahám’s Ball im Savoy)
Alonso Quijana’s Housekeeper (Leigh’s Man of La Mancha)
Carla Schlumberger (Kálmán’s Die Zirkusprinzessin)
Countess Stasa Kokozow (Lehár’s The Count of Luxembourg)
Adelaide (Zeller’s Der Vogelhändler)
Lucienne (Korngold’s Die tote Stadt)
Olga (Lehár’s The Merry Widow)
Adelaide (Zeller’s Der Vogelhändler)
Lucienne (Korngold’s Die tote Stadt)
Mother’s Shadow/Chinese Cup’s Shadow/Dragonfly’s Shadow (Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges)
Public Opinion (Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld)
She is a laureate of the Annual Estonian Theatre Award 2018.
Juuli Lill’s Operabase profile
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