Klaipėda State Music Theatre Grand Opening Gala Concert
The programme of the grand opening gala will feature excerpts from the works by Richard Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Umberto Giordano, Charles Gounod, Antonín Dvořák, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Audronė Žigaitytė, Eduardas Balsys, Vladimiras Konstantinovas, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, and Carl Orff.
The guest soloists will appear alongside the KSMT soloists, symphony orchestra and mixed choir conducted by as much as five different conductors. They will include Chief Conductor of the KSMT Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Ambrozaitis, Conductor Emeritus of the KSMT, Stanislavas Domarkas, Chief Choirmaster of the KSMT Choir, Vladimiras Konstantinovas, conductor of the first premiere at the newly opened Klaipėda State Music Theatre in 1988, opera Mažvydas by Audronė Žigaitytė, Gintaras Rinkevičius, and music director of one of the KSMT’s most recent productions, a videographic performance after Carl Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana, Robertas Šervenikas. The programme will also feature an appearance of the KSMT Ballet Company.
PROGRAMME
Donatas BIELKAUSKAS (*1977)
Prologue
Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, sound recording
Richard STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Excerpt from the symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (1896)
Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
Richard WAGNER (1813–1883)
The Dutchman’s monologue “Die Frist ist um” from the opera Der fliegende Holländer (1841)
Soloist Almas Švilpa, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
Charles GOUNOD (1818–1893)
Marguerite’s aria “Ah, je ris de me voir” from the opera Faust (1859)
Soloist Katerina Estrada Tretyakova, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
Giedrius KUPREVIČIUS (*1944)
Chorus “Ant kalnelio” (On a Hill) from the opera Prussians (1996)
Klaipėda State Music Theatre Choir, conductor Vladimiras Konstantinovas
Audronė ŽIGAITYTĖ-NEKROŠIENĖ (*1957)
Epilogue from the opera Mažvydas (1988)
Soloist Vladimiras Prudnikovas, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Klaipėda Children Opera Studio, conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius
Giuseppe VERDI (1813–1901)
Philip and Rodrigue’s duet from the opera Don Carlos (1867)
Soloists Vytautas Juozapaitis and Vladimiras Prudnikovas, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius
Umberto GIORDANO (1867–1948)
Gérard’s aria “Nemico della patria?!” from the opera Andrea Chénier (1896)
Soloist Vytautas Juozapaitis, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius
Eduardas BALSYS (1919–1984)
Scene from the ballet Eglė, Queen of the Grass Snakes (1960)
Dancers fo the Klaipėda State Music Theatre Ballet Company, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
Rusalka’s aria “Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém” from the opera Rusalka (1901)
Soloist Rita Petrauskaitė, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
George GERSHWIN (1898–1937)
Porgy and Bess’s duet “Bess, you is my woman now” from the opera Porgy and Bess (1935)
Soloists Almas Švilpa and Katerina Estrada Tretyakova, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
Jerry BOCK (1928–2010)
Tevye’s song “If I Were a Rich Man” from the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
Soloist Mindaugas Rojus, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stanislavas Domarkas
Gioachino ROSSINI (1792–1868)
Overture to the opera La gazza ladra (1817)
Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
Vladimiras KONSTANTINOVAS (*1958)
Petisné and his spouse’s duet from the opera of stories Klaipėda (2023)
Soloists Giedrius Gečys and Beata Ignatavičiūtė, Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Male Choir, conductor Vladimiras Konstantinovas
Carl ORFF (1895–1982)
Chorus “O Fortuna” from the cantata Carmina Burana (1936)
Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Choir, conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Giuseppe VERDI (1813–1901)
“Brindisi” chorus from the opera La traviata (1853)
Soloists: Judita Butkytė, Beata Ignatavičiūtė, Rita Petrauskaitė, Loreta Ramelienė, Katerina Estrada Tretyakova, Ernesta Stankutė, Rosana Štemanetian, Rasa Ulteravičiūtė-Kazlauskienė; Farshad Abbasabadi, Giedrius Gečys, Tadas Jakas, Vytautas Juozapaitis, Šarūnas Juškevičius, Valdas Kazlauskas, Virginijus Pupšys, Vladimiras Prudnikovas, Mindaugas Rojus, Evert Sooster, Šarūnas Šapalas, Almas Švilpa, Vilius Trakys
Klaipėda State Music Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Choir, conductor Tomas Ambrozaitis
