However, the building which housed the Estonia song and drama society theatre and the Estonian National Opera was bombed and heavily damaged by Soviet air raids on 9 March 1944.
[3][4] During her long career onstage at the Estonia Theatre, Sooäär performed in a number of stage plays, musicals and particularly operettas and was frequently paired with actor and singer Endel Pärn.
[5] Among her more memorable roles at the theatre were in works by composers such as: Franz Lehar, Priit Ardna, Hans Pflanzer, Emmerich Kálmán, Sigmund Romberg, Johann Strauss II, Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Franz Schubert, Edgar Arro, Leo Normet, Parashkev Hadjiev, Frederick Loewe, Ülo Raudmäe, Gerd Natschinski and Mitch Leigh.
Sooäär played the role of a farmhouse nurse to a group of insomniacs who have been taken to a remote island and given harsh and exhaustive (but sleepless) therapy and attempt to escape.
[9] In 1970, she appeared as Maria in the Veljo Käsper directed drama Tuulevaikus, based on the 1965 Einar Maasik penned novel Tuisu Taavi seitse päeva for Tallinnfilm.