Heldur Harry Põlda

Tenor

Biographie

Heldur Harry Põlda (tenor) is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (First Class Honours) where he studied under the tutelage of David Pollard and Ruby Philogene. He began his music studies at the Tallinn Music High School, where he studied choral conducting under the tutelage of Hirvo Surva and the violin with Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny. 

Heldur Harry made his singing debut at the Estonian National Opera at 8 years old and has performed various opera and musical theatre roles since then. He joined the Estonian National Opera ensemble as a soloist in 2019, his recent roles including Alfredo (La Traviata), Pelléas (Pelléas and Mélisande), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet), Orpheus (Orpheus in the Underworld) and Tamino (The Magic Flute).

In 2008, Põlda won the Estonian Culture Endowment Award for the role of Miles in Britten’s opera “The Turn of the Screw”. In 2010, he won the Estonian Choral Association’s Cooperation Award and in 2013 the Estonian National Culture Foundation Georg Ots Scholarship. In 2022, he won the 2nd place at the 29th Lions European Thomas Kuti Music Competition in Zagreb, in 2025, the Harju County Theatre Prize and the SEB Audience Award.

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