Artur Rinne (25 September 1910

Narva Narva is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in the Ida-Viru County, at the Extreme points of Estonia, eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva (river), Narva river which forms the Estonia–Russia border, E ...

– 31 January 1984

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) was an

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n singer (

baritone A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...

), theatre director and television director. He is the Estonian singer who has been recorded the most. In 1934 he graduated from Tallinn Conservatory. 1929-1937 he was a choir singer and 1937–1938 ja 1941–1944 a soloist at Estonia Theatre. From 1945 until 1949, he was the director of the

Vanemuine Vanemuine () is a theatre in Tartu, Estonia. It is the first Estonian language, Estonian-language theatre. Stemming from the Vanemuine Society (1865), the theatre's first performance was Lydia Koidula's ''Saaremaa Onupoeg'' ("The cousin from S ...

theatre in

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. 1947–1950 and 1971–1980 he was a soloist at Estonian SSR State Philharmonic. In 1950, he was arrested by Soviet authorities and was placed within the

gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

camp system; exiled to the Yertsevo prison camp in

Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast ( rus, Архангельская область, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲskəjə ˈobɫəsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz ...

of northern Russia. After he was released, from 1956 until 1970 he was a director at Eesti Televisioon and Eesti Telefilm. Awards: * 1960: Estonian SSR merited artist In 1968 the autobiographical film ''Meie Arhur'' was directed.

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1910 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Estonian male singers Estonian male musical theatre actors Estonian theatre directors Estonian film directors Estonian Gulag detainees Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni People from Narva Soviet male actors Soviet singers {{Estonia-musician-stub