Vilnius City Opera is an opera company that started in 2006 when a team of independent artists joined forces in staging

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...

's ''La bohème''. The artists included director

Dalia Ibelhauptaitė Dalia Ibelhauptaitė (born 4 May 1967) is a Lithuanian opera and theatre director and producer, a television producer and former playwright. Biography Dalia Ibelhauptaitė was born in Vilnius in 1967, and became a director at the age of 15 when ...

, conductor

Gintaras Rinkevičius Gintaras Rinkevičius (born February 20,1960) is a Lithuanian conductor, who was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts in 1994. In 1989 he founded the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Life and career Rinkevičius graduate ...

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. 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. Vilnius City Opera logotipas

Operas staged by ''Vilnius City Opera'' (selected list): * Giacomo Puccini ''

La bohème ''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '' quadri'', '' tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep ...

'', 2006 *

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

Die Zauberflöte ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that includ ...

'' 2007 *

Ruggero Leoncavallo Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo ( , , ; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his opera '' Pagliacci'' (1892) that remained ...

Pagliacci ''Pagliacci'' (; literal translation, "Clowns") is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who ...

'', 2008 *

Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are '' Manon'' (1884) and '' Werther ...

Werther ''Werther'' is an opera (''drame lyrique'') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel '' Th ...

'', 2008 * Electronic opera ''XYZ'', 2010 * Giacomo Puccini '' Manon Lescaut'', 2012 * Marijus Adomaitis, Electronic opera ''e-Carmen'', 2016 *

Charles Gounod Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (18 ...

Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroa ...

, 2017

Opera soloists

Asmik Grigorian Asmik Grigorian (born 12 May 1981 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian operatic soprano. Life and career In 1999, Asmik Grigorian graduated from National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius. She studied music at the Lithuanian Academy of Music ...

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

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Lithuanian Opera Companies in Operabase
{{authority control Opera houses in Lithuania Theatres in Vilnius

Opera soloists

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