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