Opera tours

Lithuanian National Opera tours

Come and spend two nights at the heart of Vilnius Old Town in a superior class hotel and experience the magic aura surrounding Lithuanian National Opera’s or Philharmonic productions and enjoy the enthralling voices of favourite singers and vibrant performance.

Day 1

Arrival in Vilnius. Private transfer to just opened modern hotel “Congress Avenue” 4*.

Free afternoon for individual taste of Vilnius. The Old Town of Vilnius willoffer you many art galleries to visit, stores to shop, cafes and restaurants to have lunch at as well as great souvenir shops to acquire memories of Lithuania.

Day 2

3 hours morning walking excursion in Vilnius old town.

Vilnius, the historical capital of Lithuania dating back to the 14th century, has the most beautiful and one of the largest old towns in Europe, awarded with the status of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, with Vilnius University being the oldest one in Eastern Europe. It is rapidly expandingas a modern European capital, so you can experience the harmony of the old and the new Vilnius.Sightseeing tour of Vilnius featuring essential sights of the city: St. Anne'sChurch, Pilies street, the Gates of the Dawn, University campus, Town hall,Cathedral square, Gediminas castle and others.

Impressive evening with Opera performance (type of performance depends on the arrival date).

Day 3

Private transfer from a hotel to the airport. Departure.

Price: 240 EUR/ per person (DBL occupancy room)

Package includes:

2 nights accommodation DBL room with breakfast in the “Congress Avenue” hotel 4*;

Private transfers;
Vilnius Sightseeing tour;

2 tickets to Ballet or Opera performance;

Information package.

OPTIONAL 4 hours excursion to an ancient Lithuanian capital Trakai - the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania!

Visit the 15th century Insular Trakai Castle housing an exhibition on prehistoric findings and the 17-18th century applied art, the way of life of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes, and the Karaites, brought to Lithuania from the Crimea. Lunch at the restaurant with charming Castle view.

Price: 60 Eur / person (included guide, car services, entrance fees to Trakai castle, admission fees).

Repertoire:

2016-01-27 18:30 Giuseppe Verdi ERNANI

Music Directors and Conductors Gianluca Marciano (Italy), Giampaolo Bisanti (Italy)
Conductors Dainius Pavilionis, Martynas Staškus
Director Jean-Claude Berutti (France)
Set Designer Rudy Sabounghi (France)
Costume Designer Agnė Kuzmickaitė
Lighting Designer Levas Kleinas
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-01-28 18:30 R. Wagnerio muz. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE

a ballet in 2 acts to the music by Richard Wagner / Henk de Vlieger
Libretto by Krzysztof Pastor, Carel Alphenaar

Music:
Henk de Vlieger - orchestral passion "Tristan and Isolde" after Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde"
Richard Wagner - "Wesendonck Lieder"

Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor
Music Director and Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas
Conductor Modestas Barkauskas (09. 19)
Set Designer Adomas Jacovskis
Costume Designer Aleksandra Jacovskytė
Light Designer Levas Kleinas

2016-01-29 18:30 Gaetano Donizetti L’ELISIR D’AMORE

an opera in 2 acts

Music Director and Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas
Director Oskaras Koršunovas
Set and Video Designer Gintaras Makarevičius
Costume Designer Agnė Kuzmickaitė
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas
Choreographer Edita Stundytė

2016-01-30 18:30 Piotr Čaikovskij THE NUTCRACKER

Ballet in 2 acts

Choreogrpher Krzysztof Pastor
Conductor Martynas Staškus

Conductor Modestas Barkauskas
Designer Viačeslav Okunev

Premiere: 21 November, 2014

A ballet full of mystery and miracles, poetry and beauty, and wonderful dreams that come true on Christmas Eve by the green fir tree…

2016-01-31 12:00 Sergej Prokofjev CINDERELLA

Libretto by N.Volkov after Charles Perrault's fairy tale

Renewed version by Enno Suve

Conductor Alvydas Šulčys
Choreographer Enno Suve (Estonia)
Designer Eldor Renter (Estonia)

2016-02-03 18:30 pagal S. Prokofjevo muz. THE SNOW QUEEN

Ballet in 3 acts

Music by Sergei Prokofiev, arranged by Julian Philips

Choreographer and Director Michael Corder (UK)
Music Director and Conductor Martynas Staškus
Conductor Alvydas Šulčys
Designer Mark Bailey (UK)
Lighting Designer Paul Pyant (UK)

2016-02-05 18:30 Giacomo Puccini LA BOHEME

an opera in 2 parts

Music Director and Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Conductor Julius Geniušas, Nicola Paszkowski (Italy)
Direction and Concept by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti (Italy)
Stage Director Gediminas Šeduikis

Lighting Designer Vincent Longuemare (France)
Costume Designer Alessandro Lai (Italy)
Visual Designer David Loom (Italy)
Video Programmer Davide Broccoli (Italy)
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-02-06 18:30 CARMEN ballet

a ballet in 2 acts to the music by G. Bizet

Choreographer Didy Veldman (The Netherlands)
Music Director and Conductor Modestas Barkauskas
Conductor Juozas Mantas Jauniškis
Designer Kimie Nakano (UK)
Light Designer Ben Ormerod (UK)

2016-02-07 12:00 Bogdan Pawlowski SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

Ballet in 3 acts for children
Libretto by W. Borkowski and S. Petrowski after Grimm brothers’ novel

Choreographer Witold Borkowski (Poland)
Production renewed by Jurijus Smoriginas
Conductor Alvydas Šulčys
Designer Giedre Riškutė

2016-02-12 18:30 Georges Bizet CARMEN

an opera in 2 parts, sung in French with Lithuanian and English surtitles

Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Director Arnaud Bernard (France)
Set Designer Alessandro Camera (Italy)
Costume Designer Maria Carla Ricotti (Italy)
Choreographer Gianni Santucci (Italy)
Light Designer Vinicio Cheli (Italy)
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-02-13 18:30 Ludwig Alois Minkus LA BAYADÈRE

Ballet in 4 acts

Choreographer Marius Petipa
Stage choreographers Altynai Asylmuratova, Liudmila Kovaliova (Russia)
Designer Vyacheslav Okunev (Russia)
Conductor Martynas Staškus

2016-02-14 17:00 Gaetano Donizetti L’ELISIR D’AMORE

an opera in 2 acts

2016-02-17 18:30 Piotr Čaikovskij THE NUTCRACKER

Ballet in 2 acts

Choreogrpher Krzysztof Pastor
Conductor Martynas Staškus

Conductor Modestas Barkauskas
Designer Viačeslav Okunev

2016-02-18 18:30 Georg Friedrich Handel ALEXANDER'S FEAST

Music Director and Conductor Rolf Beck (Germany)
Conductor Vytautas Lukočius
Director Csaba Káel (Hungary)
Set Designer Éva Szendrényi (Hungary)
Costume Designer Juozas Statkevičius
Video Designer László Zsolt Bordos (Hungary)
Light Designer Levas Kleinas
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-02-19 18:30 Adolphe Adam GISELLE

Ballet in 2 acts

Choreography by Jules Perrot, Jean Coralli and Marius Petipa

Production Choreographer Oleg Vinogradov (Russia)
Conductors Robertas Šervenikas, Alvydas Šulčys
Designer Igor Ivanov (Russia)

2016-02-20 18:30 Jules Massenet MANON

an opera in 5 acts

Music Director and Conductor Cyril Diederich (France);
Conductor Julius Geniušas
Director, Costume Designer Vincent Boussard (France)
Set Designer Vincent Lemaire (Belgium)

Lighting Designer Levas Kleinas
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-02-27 12:00 Sigitas Mickis ZUIKIS PUIKIS

a chamber opera for children in Lithuanuian

Conductor Juozas Mantas Jauniškis
Director and Choreographer Jūratė Sodytė
Set Designer Kristijonas Siparis
Costume Designer Neringa Keršulytė
Light Designer Justas Jackevičius
Head of the LNOBT's Opera Studio for Children Samanta Bielskytė

2016-03-04 18:30 Giuseppe Verdi DON CARLO

an opera in 4 acts

Music Director and Conductor Pierre Vallet (France)
Conductor Martynas Staškus
Director and Author of the Concept for Lighting Design Günter Krämer (Germany)
Set Designer Herbert Schäfer (Germany)
Costume Designer Isabel Ines Glathar (Germany)
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-03-12 18:30 Franz Lehár DIE LUSTIGE WITWE

operetta in 3 acts,
performed in Lithuanian

Libretto by Victor Léon
and Leo Stein after Henri Meilhac

Music Director and Conductor Julius Geniušas
Director and Choreographer Monika Wiesler (Austria)
Designer Eldor Renter (Estonia)
Chief Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-03-17 18:30 BARBORA RADVILAITĖ

a ballet in 2 acts to the music by S. Vainiūnas, A. Malcys, H. M. Górecki and other composers

Choreography and Libretto by Anželika Cholina
Music Director and Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Set Designer Marijus Jacovskis
Costume Designer Juozas Statkevičius
Lighting Designer Tadas Valeika
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-03-19 18:30 Piotr Čaikovskij EUGENE ONEGIN

Music Director and Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Director Vasilij Barkhatov (Moscow)
Set Designer Zinovij Margolin (Moscow)
Costume Designer Marija Danilova (Moscow)
Light Designer Levas Kleinas
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-03-20 12:00 Karen Chačaturian CIPOLLINO

Ballet in 3 acts for children

Libretto by G. Rikhlov after Gianni Rodari’s novel

Choreographer Henrik Mayorov (Russia)
Coductor Alvydas Šulčys
Designer Jūrate Račinskaitė

2016-03-24 18:30 Ludwig van Beethoven FIDELIO

Music Director and Conductor Martynas Staškus
Director Oskaras Koršunovas
Set Designer Gintaras Makarevičius
Costume Designer Sandra Straukaitė
Light Designer Stein Phillips
Video Designer Mikas Žukauskas
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-03-30 18:30 Johann Strauss DIE FLEDERMAUS

Operetta in 3 acts sung in Lithuanian

Music Director and Conductor Martynas Staškus
Conductor Julius Geniušas
Director Gediminas Šeduikis
Set and Lighting Designer Andu Dumitrescu (Romania)
Costume Designer Agnė Kuzmickaitė
Lighting Designer Levas Kleinas
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-03-31 18:30 BOLERO+

Triple bill of one-act ballets

THINGS I TOLD NOBODY, with the music by G. F. Handel, A. Vivaldi, W. A. Mozart, E. Satie
Choreographer and Designer Itzik Galili

EVERYWHERE WE WEREN'T, with the music by Max Richter
Choreographer Martynas Rimeikis
Designer Marijus Jacovskis
Costume Designer Lauryna Liepaitė
Lighting Designer Levas Kleinas

BOLERO, with the music by Maurice Ravel
Choreography and concept of scenography by Krzysztof Pastor
Costume Designer Marta Fiedler
Lighting Designer Levas Kleinas
Music Director and Conductor Modestas Barkauskas

2016-04-02 18:30 R. Wagnerio muz. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE

a ballet in 2 acts to the music by Richard Wagner / Henk de Vlieger
Libretto by Krzysztof Pastor, Carel Alphenaar

Music:
Henk de Vlieger - orchestral passion "Tristan and Isolde" after Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde"
Richard Wagner - "Wesendonck Lieder"

2016-04-03 12:00 Jonas Tamulionis THE TINY LINGONBERRY

an opera in 2 acts for children

Libretto by Milda Brėdikytė after a fairytale by Martynas Vainilaitis
Performed in Lithuanian with English surtitles

Conductors Robertas Šervenikas, Alvydas Šulčys
Director Gytis Padegimas
Designer Birutė Ukrinaitė
Choreographer Agnija Šeiko
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas

2016-04-07 18:30 Johanno Strausso muz. THE BLUE DANUBE

a ballet in two acts set to the music of Johann Strauss

Choreographer and the Editor of Libretto Andrej Melanjin (Russia)
Music Director and Conductor Martynas Staškus
Set and Costume Designer Vyacheslav Okunev (Russia)
Lighting Designer Levas Kleinas

2016-04-10 17:00 INESA' RETRO

2016-04-14 18:30 Richard Wagner DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

2016-04-15 18:30 Giedrius Kuprevičius ČIURLIONIS

2016-04-16 18:30 Giuseppe Verdi DON CARLO

2016-04-17 12:00 Bogdan Pawlowski SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

2016-04-29 18:30 Ludwig Alois Minkus DON QUIXOTE

2016-05-04 18:30 Johanno Strausso muz. THE BLUE DANUBE

2016-05-06 18:30 Giuseppe Verdi DON CARLO

2016-05-08 12:00 Jonas Tamulionis THE TINY LINGONBERRY

2016-05-12 18:30 Giedrius Kuprevičius ČIURLIONIS

2016-05-14 18:30 Ludwig van Beethoven FIDELIO

2016-05-15 12:00 Sergej Prokofjev CINDERELLA