Ida Loo-Talvari (née Ida Loo; 19 June 1901, in

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– 29 June 1997, in

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, near

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, Sweden) was an Estonian opera singer. She was the wife of composer

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(first marriage) and the sister of the librettist Voldemar Loo.

Life

Ida Loo-Talvari was born is Narva, Estonia. She was the second child of Juhan Loo and Helene Rosalie Katlasepp. Her elder brother was a famous librettist Voldemar Loo. She was studied in

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, Milan and

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. Her first husband was

, an Estonian composer. The couple were married between 1926 and 1937. In 1938 she married Johannes Talvari. In 1944, following the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia, she fled to Sweden. She died in 1997 near Gothenburg, aged 96.

References

1901 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Estonian women opera singers Estonian operatic sopranos People from Narva Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to Sweden Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni {{Estonia-bio-stub