Heli Veskus studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Sibelius Academy. The Estonian soprano was a 1998 finalist at the Estonian Con Brio festival and competition for young musicians, and also a recipient of such prizes as the Harjumaa County Theatre Prize (2003), the annual Estonian Theatre Union Music Award (2004) and the Georg Ots Award (2008), Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for the Performing Arts (2008) for high artistic achievements by the soloists and conductor Aile Asszonyi , Heli Veskus, Oliver Kuusik , Liisi Kasenõmm , Heldur Harry Põld, Hanna-Liisa Kappel and Lauri Sirp of Benjamin Britten's opera "The Turn of the Screw " performed at the Birgitta Festival. She was awarded the Estonian Theatre Music Award (2016) and the SEB Audience Award (2016), Estonian Theatre Union Music Award (2017), as well as a scholarship from the Estonian Richard Wagner Society (2005).
She is principal soloist of the Estonian National Opera. Since her debut with the company as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in 1999, she has sung such parts as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Helmwige (Die Walküre), Micaëla (Carmen), Mimì (La bohème), Tatyana (Eugen Onegin), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Antonia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Desdemona (Otello), Lady (Cardillac), as well as Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Elisabeth/Venus (Tannhäuser), Leonora (Il trovatore), Grose (The Turn of the Screw) and the title roles in Jüri Reinvere’s opera The Purge, Manon Lescaut, as well as the title parts in Aida and Tosca. With her exceptional and colourful voice she is now on her way to an international career.
As a guest soloist she was a part of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the opening of the 20th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw. The highlights of her concert appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Messa in C major and Missa Solemnis, Mozart's Requiem, Max Bruch’s Moses, Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder, Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder and Dvořák’s Requiem, Schubert's Messa in C major and G major, C. Orff's Carmina burana, etc., and in many performances abroad, including at the Finnish National Opera, Latvian National Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Helikon Opera Theatre in Moscow, Opera Cava Festival in Nilsiäs, Finland, Penderecki Festival in Warsaw, Birgitta Festival and several times at the Saaremaa Opera Days. She has sung at the Dalhalla, Tallinn/Reval, Tartu theatres, in concerts in Chicago, Juuru, Lakewood, Ottawa, Suure-Jaani, Tallinn/Reval, Tolland, Toronto. She is also an enthusiastic solo performer.
Since 2003 she has also been teaching classical singing at the Georg Ott Tallinn Music School and since 2006 she has been teaching singing at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She has also appeared in Vanemuine Musical Theatre productions, as a chamber singer (including in Lied concerts with Jaanik Rands-Sirba and Pippa Lassmann).
She has also performed roles in operettas: Künnecke's operetta Cousin of Dingsda, Hanna Glavari in Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow, Annina Strauss in Night in Venice and Franziska Cagliari in the operetta Wiener blood.
She has recorded albums: Barbara von Thyssenhuysen: opera (DVD, 2005), Estonia National Opera - 100 (CD, 2006), Estonia Opera Voices (CD+DVD, 2009).
She is principal soloist of the Estonian National Opera. Since her debut with the company as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in 1999, she has sung such parts as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Helmwige (Die Walküre), Micaëla (Carmen), Mimì (La bohème), Tatyana (Eugen Onegin), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Antonia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Desdemona (Otello), Lady (Cardillac), as well as Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Elisabeth/Venus (Tannhäuser), Leonora (Il trovatore), Grose (The Turn of the Screw) and the title roles in Jüri Reinvere’s opera The Purge, Manon Lescaut, as well as the title parts in Aida and Tosca. With her exceptional and colourful voice she is now on her way to an international career.
As a guest soloist she was a part of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the opening of the 20th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw. The highlights of her concert appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Messa in C major and Missa Solemnis, Mozart's Requiem, Max Bruch’s Moses, Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder, Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder and Dvořák’s Requiem, Schubert's Messa in C major and G major, C. Orff's Carmina burana, etc., and in many performances abroad, including at the Finnish National Opera, Latvian National Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Helikon Opera Theatre in Moscow, Opera Cava Festival in Nilsiäs, Finland, Penderecki Festival in Warsaw, Birgitta Festival and several times at the Saaremaa Opera Days. She has sung at the Dalhalla, Tallinn/Reval, Tartu theatres, in concerts in Chicago, Juuru, Lakewood, Ottawa, Suure-Jaani, Tallinn/Reval, Tolland, Toronto. She is also an enthusiastic solo performer.
Since 2003 she has also been teaching classical singing at the Georg Ott Tallinn Music School and since 2006 she has been teaching singing at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She has also appeared in Vanemuine Musical Theatre productions, as a chamber singer (including in Lied concerts with Jaanik Rands-Sirba and Pippa Lassmann).
She has also performed roles in operettas: Künnecke's operetta Cousin of Dingsda, Hanna Glavari in Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow, Annina Strauss in Night in Venice and Franziska Cagliari in the operetta Wiener blood.
She has recorded albums: Barbara von Thyssenhuysen: opera (DVD, 2005), Estonia National Opera - 100 (CD, 2006), Estonia Opera Voices (CD+DVD, 2009).
