Levas Kleinas

Lighting designer

Works with Vilnius City Opera

Opera

The adaptation of the lighting design for “La Bohème” in preparation for its staging at LNOBT.

Designed lighting for more than 80 opera productions, including “La traviata”, “Faust”, “Nabucco”, “Turandot”, “Un ballo in maschera”, “Rigoletto”, “Macbeth”, “Don Giovanni”, “Carmen”, “Fidelio”, “Tosca”, “Die Walküre”, and many others.

Ballet

Designed lighting for more than 70 ballet productions, including “The Sleeping Beauty”, “Giselle”, “Swan Lake”, “La Sylphide”, “Coppélia”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Desdemona”, “La Bayadère”, and many others.

Since 2012, collaborated with choreographer Martynas Rimeikis, designing lighting for his productions such as “Waiting for Godot”, “Everywhere We Were Not”, “The Trial”, “Days, Minutes.”, “The Lamb of God”, and other.

On tour

Together with the LNOBT, performed in theatres and festivals across Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, China, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, and Taiwan.

With the LNOBT ballet “Romeo and Juliet”, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, performances were held on tour at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany, 1994), Eastern France (1997), Thessaloniki (Greece, 1997), Cairo (Egypt, 1997), Washington, D.C. (USA, 1998), Cagliari (Italy, 1999), Tokyo and Osaka (Japan, 2001), London (UK, 2002), and other.

Collaborated with

Robert Wilson

Peter Mumford

Rick Fisher

Mimi Jordan

Adam Silverman

Marc Heinz

Scott Zielinski

Vinicio Cheli

Eduardo Bravo

And other

In 1998, he was one of three translators who adapted the OISTAT-published “Dictionary of New Theatre Words” into Lithuanian, also serving as one of the editors for the special terminology.

Other

2006–2012

Head of the Lighting Department at VCO

Since 1976

Chief Lighting Designer at LNOBT

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