Vilnius City Opera

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Vilnius City Opera[1] is an opera company that started in 2006 when a team of independent artists joined forces in staging Giacomo Puccini's La bohème. The artists included director Dalia Ibelhauptaitė,[2] conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius and scene artist Juozas Statkevičius.

The artists have called themselves bohemiečiai (the Bohemians) since this time. After 8 years of activity, the troupe acquired the status of a professional theatre and became known as the Vilnius City Opera.

Vilnius City Opera has no theatre of their own and stage their operas in the Vilnius Congress Concert Hall.[3] One of the main aims of VCO is to make the opera genre more widely available and to free it from elitist stereotypes and snobbishness.[4]

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Operas staged by Vilnius City Opera (selected list):

Opera soloists

  • Asmik Grigorian
  • Laimonas Pautienius
  • Jurgita Adamonytė
  • Jovita Vaškevičiūtė
  • Rafailas Karpis
  • Tadas Girininkas
  • Arūnas Malikėnas
  • Edgaras Montvydas
  • Justina Gringytė

See also

Lithuanian opera

References

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