Kęstutis Antanėlis (28 March 1951 – 12 October 2020) was a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, architect, and sculptor.

Career

Kęstutis Antanėlis was born in Vilnius. In 1975 he graduated from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (former V.I.S.I.) and later from the

Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts The Vilnius Academy of Arts ( lt, Vilniaus dailės akademija, previously ''State Art Institute of Lithuania'') in Vilnius, Lithuania, grants a variety of degrees in the arts. History The Academy traces its roots back to the creation of the Arc ...

. As an architect he designed buildings, interiors, furniture (the Republic of Lithuania credentials Hall, 1995), and a stained-glass office building. As an artist he created various sculptures. As a composer he wrote nearly 200 songs and about 80 instrumental pieces. In 1971 he was the first in Europe and the second in the world to stage the

Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, ...

rock opera ''

Jesus Christ Superstar ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion, the work interprets the psychology of Jesus and other characters, with ...

''. He was noted for his work on the rock opera '' Love and Death in Verona'', and staging and singing in ''

Romeo and Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...

'' in Vilnius in 1982. In 1998, he performed at the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in Germany. In 1997 he staged the opera ''

Peer Gynt ''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five- act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1876. Written in Norwegian, it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed ''Per Gynt'', the Norwegian fairy tale on wh ...

''. Arvydas Krešulys. "Kęstutis Antanėlis". ''Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija'', T. I (A-Ar). V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2001, 561 psl.

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