After a long wait, the atomic nucleus was presented: “Stage gold crosses”

The ceremony was hosted by actress Nelė Savičenko and opera soloist Rafail Karpis. “We had to meet up earlier, but we spent the day at home theater, not at the theater. But we finally got together, “Savichenko said at the beginning of the ceremony.

Jonas Sakalauskas, on behalf of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, receiving the award for the best set design and promising to deliver it soon to set designer Robert Wilson, said that this author is very important for opera: “His staging opened a new page in the history of opera, it is very important and we are happy that he has created more than one work in Lithuania and we hope he creates more than one ”.

Paulina Taujanskaitė, who was awarded for the best role of a woman in the play “One Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater), thanked her teachers, including Darius Meškauskas, Saulius Šaltenis and Yana Ross.

“It’s very nice not only to be nominated, but also to win in such strange times, I hope you are the last to be so strange. If theater was needed for so many thousands of years, I hope it will be the same, ”said Lukas Malinauskas, who received the Golden Stage Cross for his best role in the play Liučė skate.

The creative group of the performance “Duck, death and tulip” was awarded for the best performance for children and young people: Jūratė Trimakaitė, Cerise Guyon, Thomas Demay, Felix Bataillou (Vilnius Theater “Puppet”).

Rimantas Ribačiauskas (Operomania) was awarded for the dramaturgy of the sound experience in the Vilnius ghetto “Glaistas”.

Tadas Montrimas, director of the imperial play “Uncle Vania” (Lithuanian Russian Dramatic Theater) awarded for the experience of the year

Aušra Pukelytė received the award for the minor role of a woman for the role of Valeria in the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater).

Paulius Markevičius was awarded for the minor role of a man in the representation “12 grams to the north” (Small State Theater of Vilnius).

The Boris Dauguvietis Earring was awarded to actor and director Darius Gumauskas for innovative solutions in theater art for directing plays.

2019 The Thanksgiving Prize was awarded to opera soloist Irena Milkevičiūtė.

“I am very excited, surprised, I think, by all the people who work in our theater and not only deserve that award, because they give their whole life, their whole heart, all their strength,” she said.

Yana Ross has been named Best Director for the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater).

“It is a great pleasure to come back to Lithuania. I have just finished my hard work abroad, I had to self-quarantine for two weeks, but I guessed it. I want to thank the theater community: Lithuania is a very important country for me, in my work, in my life. I still wondered why it is so important for me to re-create in Lithuania. It seems to me that the relationship in Lithuanian theater is long-term. We create, we think about a performance, a play that will have a long life long, we will have a connection with the public, we travel not only abroad, but also to Lithuania, which I often miss abroad, where the performances are created for one or two seasons. I would like to wish it to be kept in Lithuania, It is a very important creative process, ”said Yana Ross when accepting the award.

Martynas Rimeikis received the award for best choreography for the ballets Eglė Snake Queen (Klaipda State Musical Theater) and Days, Minutes (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater).

Julija Stankevičiūtė was named best dancer for the role of a woman in the ballet “Days, Minutes” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater) and for the role of Egle in the ballet “Egle the Snake Queen” (Klaipeda State Musical Theater ).

Marius Pinigis was named best dancer for his role in the dance show “Burnout” (dance company “Nuepiko”).

Asmik Grigorian was named best soloist for the role of Lisa in the opera The Lady of Spades (Vilnius City Opera). Receiving the award on his behalf, A. Grigorian’s mother, Irena Milkevičiūtė, was happy to be doubly happy today.

Rafail Karpis was named best soloist for the roles of Narrator, Governor, Lord I, Vanderdendur in the operetta Kandidas and the role of Pango in the opera Turandot (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater).

Marija Paškevičiūtė received the award for best music for the performance of the music from the ballet Days, Minutes (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater).

80 offers were sent

The Ministry of Culture received 80 proposals for prizes for works by professional theater artists. The nominations were evaluated by a nine-member commission: the theatrical Margarita Alper, the ballet critic Skaidrė Baranskaja, the dance critic Goda Dapšytė, the theater critic Lina Klusaitė, the music critic Rasa Murauskaitė, the theatologist Martynas Petrikas, the set designer Jūratė Račinskaitė, the theater critic

Among the nominees for the awards for the works of the Professional Theater artists created in 2019 were the following (the winners stand out):

SCENOGRAPHY

Jonas Arčikauskas for the scenography of the performance “Thirteenth Apostle, or Cloud in Pants” (Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater)

Barbora Šulniūtė for the scenography of the performance “12 grams north” (Small State Theater of Vilnius)

Robert Wilson for the set design for the opera Turandot (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

THE ROLE OF WOMEN

Taura Kvietinskaitė for the role of Liučė in the play “Liučė Skates” (Oskaras Koršunovas Theater)

Paulina Taujanskaitė for the role of Marytė in the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater)

Juliana Volodko for the role of Jelena Andrejevna in the play “Uncle Vania” (Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater)

THE ROLE OF MAN

Viačeslav Lukjanov for the role of Ivan Petrovičius Voinickis in the play “Uncle Vania” (Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater)

Lukas Malinauskas for the role of Felix in the play “Lucy Skates” (Oskaras Koršunovas Theater)

Valentin Novopolsky for the role of the ordinary young poet in the thirteenth apostle, or the cloud in pants (Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater)

PERFORMANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Creative group of the representation “Duck, Death and Tulip”: Jūratė Trimakaitė, Cerise Guyon, Thomas Demay, Felix Bataillou (Vilnius Theater “Puppet”)

Choreographer of the dance show-installation “Lumi” Dalija Acin Thelander (Sheikh Dance Theater)

Creative group of the puppet performance “House”: Aušra Bakanaitė, Virginija Rimkaitė, Gintarė Radvilavičiūtė, Vytautas Kairys, Donatas Bielkauskas, Monika Verdenė Valkiūnaitė, Justina Kalnietytė, Monika Mikalauskaitė-Baukusstienisutė, Kusstienisut

DRAMATURGY

Ingrida Gerbutavičiūtė for the dramaturgy of the dance opera Eternity and One Day (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Ribačiauskas rhymes for the dramaturgy of sound experience in the Vilnius ghetto “Glaistas” (Operomania)

Creative group of the “Slow Down” performance: Anna Smolar, Michał Buszewicz, Lora Kmieliauskaitė, Monika Bičiūnaitė, Gailė Butvilaitė, Martynas Nedzinskas, Miglė Polikevičiūtė, Gediminas Rimeika, Ryitutis Saladžius (National Drama Theater of Lithuania)

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Director of the representation of the Imperial Theater “Uncle Vania” Tadas Montrimas (Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater)

Glaistas’ creative experience in the Vilnius ghetto: Rimantas Ribačiauskas, Mantas Jančiauskas, Jūra Elena Šedytė, Andrius Šiurys, Robertas Dumpis, Ana Ablamonova (Operomania)

Creative group of the “Swollen” dance and history excursion-show: Agnija Šeiko, Inga Kuznecova, Kristijonas Lučinskas, Benas Šarka, Edmundas Gylys, Vladimir Konstantinov, Karina Novikova, Donatas Bielkauskas, Larion Dyakov, Sondra Simana (Sheikh Dance Tea)

THE NON-BASIC ROLE OF WOMEN

Aušra Pukelytė for the role of Valeria in the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater)

Agnieška Ravdo for the role of Monika in the play “Journey to Eden” (Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater)

Dovilė Šilkaitytė for the role of Egle in the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater)

LEADER

Oskaras Koršunovas for the performance “Liučė skate” (Oskaras Koršunovas Theater)

Yana Ross for the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater)

Jonas Vaitkus for the performance “Thirteenth Apostle, or Cloud in Pants” (Lithuanian Russian Drama Theater)

THE NON-PRIMARY ROLE OF MAN

Sergei Ivanov for the role of Oscar in the play “Fairy Tales from a Forest” (State Youth Theater)

Irmantas Jankaitis for the role of Valdas in the play “Vienna Forest Tales” (State Youth Theater)

Paulius Markevičius for the role of Martynas in the play “12 grams to the north” (Vilnius Small State Theater)

CHOREOGRAPHY

Palle Granhøj for Boléro-Extended (Sheikh Dance Theater) live music and dance show

Martynas Rimeikis for the ballets “Eglė the Snake Queen” (Klaipeda State Musical Theater) and “Days, Minutes” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Agnija Šeiko for the dance and music show “Oneiro” (Sheikh Dance Theater)

DANCER

Olga Konoshenko for the role of godmother Frau Droselmajer in the ballet “The Nutcracker” (Klaipeda State Musical Theater)

Julija Stankevičiūtė for the role of a woman in the ballet “Days, Minutes” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater) and the role of Egle in the ballet “Egle the Snake Queen” (Klaipeda State Musical Theater)

Viltė Švarplytė for his role in the dance show “Expansión. The universe enters my body ”(Vytis Jankauskas Dance Theater)

DANCER

Jeronimas Krivickas for the role of the Mirror in the dance opera “Eternity and One Day” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Jonas Laucius for the role of the father in the dance opera Eternity and One Day (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Marius Pinigis for his role in the dance show “Burnout” (dance company “Nuepiko”)

SOLOIST

Asmik Grigorian for the role of Lisa in the opera The Lady of Spades (Vilnius City Opera)

Agnė Stančikaitė for the role of Liu in the opera Turandot (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Jovita Vaškevičiūtė for the role of the old woman in the operetta Kandidas (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Soloists

Kristian Benedikt for the role of Prince Kalaf in the opera Turandot (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Rafailas Karpis for the roles of narrator, governor, Mr. I, Vanderdendur in the operetta “Kandidas” and the role of Pango in the opera “Turandot” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Kostas Smoriginas for the role of Tomskis in the opera “Lady of Spades” (Vilnius City Opera)

MUSIC FOR PERFORMANCE

Rita Mačiliūnaitė for the music of the dance opera “Eternity and One Day” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Marija Paškevičiūtė for the music of the Ballet Days, Minutes (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater)

Group of actors “Church on Wheels” for the music of the play “Pizdukas” (theater studio “Theaomai”)