Jurgita Adamonytė

She is mysterious and as open-hearted as a child; she makes you feel uncertain, while she’s smiling – it’s all in Mélisande’s contradictory nature. The music in Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande is no less perplexing, conveying the symbolistic plot that concerns a destructive love triangle. “She is nobody,” says Jurgita Adamonytė about her Mélisande. “Everyone sees in her what they want.” After her appearances in the lead role at the Welsh National Opera, the critics saw a ‘Lithuanian Ingrid Bergman’ in her. Unassuming, sometimes even a strict and straightforward person in her daily life, Jurgita is a skilled professional in her metier. She never chooses the easiest way and performs the so-called trouser roles with the same natural ease as the mezzo-soprano roles. As a result she draws both professional acclaim and public admiration everywhere she appears – from the United Kingdom to Japan.