Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė
soprano
Works with Vilnius City Opera
In opera
"Le nozze di Figaro“
"Don Giovanni“
"Così fan tutte“
"Ariodante“
"Boris Godunov“
"Lazarus“
"Rusalka“
"Jenůfa“
"Der Freischütz“
"Platée“
"Carmen“
"Acis and Galatea“
"Semele“
"Don Pasquale“
"La Rondine“
"Les Troyens“
"Reigen“
"La fedeltà premiata“
"The Fairy Queen“
In concerts
J. S. Bach
J. S. Bach
J. S. Bach
J. Brahms
C. Debussy
G. Fauré
J. Kuhnau
P. McCartney
F. Mendelssohn
W. A. Mozart
C. Orff
C. Orff
C. Orff
R. Schumann
A. Schönberg
B. Britten
M. Tippett
L. Bernstein
I. Stravinsky
M. K. Čiurlionis
Theaters
Germany
Sweden
Sweden
France
France
Sweden
Germany
Switzerland
London, United Kingdom
Germany
Germany
Sweden
The Netherlands
Collaborated with
Trevor Pinnock
Jacek Kaspszyk
Sylvain Cambreling
Daniele Rustioni
Kyrill Karabits
Ben Gernon
Christian Curnyn
Marcus Stenz
James Gaffigan
Charles Mackerras
Massimo Zanetti
Robert Trevino
Dennis O‘Neillu
Kiri Te Kanawa
Awards
2003
First place prize at the International Festival and Competition “21th Century Art” in Ukraine
2006
Diploma at the B. Grincevičiūtė chamber singing competition
2006
Second place prize at the V. Jonuškaitė-Zaunienė female singers competition
Winner of the Royal Academy Pavarotti Prize
Woman of the Year Awards (2011)
Lithuania's discovery of the year
It is difficult to pigeonhole Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė or her Pamina using everyday terms and clichéd approaches to the role she performs. At first sight Pamina is a fragile princess, found and rescued by a prince. Mozart, however, interlaced her portrait with plenty of tiny eloquent details that give away her true individuality. Lauryna is more like an ice princess, and her glass-shattering soprano sounds like a hail storm. Her singing is sheer energy that should be tamed onstage. It seems that Pamina’s dress made of 3,500 buttons served the purpose just fine… The good news is that Lauryna is usually calm and focused backstage. People at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, and many other venues in France and Switzerland can testify to that firsthand.
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