Afterward, he enrolled at the Estonian State Theatre Institute in Tallinn to study drama under instructors Ants Lauter, Priit Põldroos, Leo Kalmet, and Felix Moor, among others, graduating in 1949.
From 1961 until 1962, he studied stage direction and drama at the Estonian Studio of the Lutasharsky National Institute of Theatrical Arts (GITIS) in Moscow.
[6] Highlights of his early career at the Vanemuine include performances in Juhan Smuul's Kihnu Jõnnis (1963), Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (1965), Mati Unt's See maailm või teine (1966), and Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1969).
Haravee also performed in a number of productions of operas and operettas by Georg Philipp Telemann, Gioachino Rossini, and Giuseppe Verdi.
In 1975, he played the role of Valter, a fanatical Nazi, in the Antonis Vogiazos-directed Russian language World War II television drama miniseries Variant 'Omega'.