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Due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the centennial commemoration of the Lithuanian Professional Theater was postponed until 2021. And this year, on September 22, 2021, three contemporary theaters, which consider the State Theater as their origins, prepared to celebrate the centenary of the Lithuanian Theater: the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, the Kaunas National Drama Theater and the Kaunas National Theater. State Musical Theater.
It was at the Kaunas State Musical Theater, which still shows its performances to the public in the palace inherited from the State Theater, that a solemn commemoration of the centenary of the Lithuanian Theater took place on September 22, with the participation of all three. theaters.
Celebrities didn’t miss out on the exclusive event on September 22. Jonas Sakalauskas, the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, Jonas Vaitkus, the director and a group of actors, including Daiva Rudokaitė and his wife Vytautas Blaževičius, posed on the red carpet. TV faces also appeared: presenter Jolanta Svirnelytė with her colleague, news anchor Rokas Petkevičius.
Commemoration of the centenary of Lithuanian opera and drama / Photo by Teodoras Biliūnas
Commemoration of the centenary of Lithuanian opera and drama / Photo by Teodoras Biliūnas
The Lithuanian professional theater memory event was prepared by a team of renowned artists: chief directors of the Vilnius and Kaunas music scenes Ričardas Šumila and Jonas Janulevičius, director Gediminas Šeduikis, choreographer Martynas Rimeikis. The scenery and video projections were created by Sigita Šinkūnaitė and Vytenis Tarvydas, the light artist Andrius Stasiulis. The costume solutions for the show’s performers were coordinated by designer Sandra Straukaitė. Audrius Stonys prepared documentary video material that reflects the most striking moments of the historical past of the theater.
Commemoration of the centenary of Lithuanian opera and drama / Photo by Teodoras Biliūnas
Renowned Lithuanian stars of the stage appeared at the event: soloists and guests from the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet and Kaunas State Music Theaters: Merūnas Vitulskis, Marija Arutiunova, Joana Gedmintaitė, Sandra Janušaitė, Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Gitana Pečkytė, Gitana Pečkytėvilion Stančomasitė Militar, Mindaugas Zimkus, Steponas Zonys, LNOBT ballet dancers Ernest Barčaitis and Marija Kastorina will dance. The concert performers were assisted by the performers of the Kaunas State Musical Theater Choir (director of the Rasa Vaitkevičiūtė choir) and the symphony orchestra (main conductor Jonas Janulevičius).
According to the event director Gediminas Šeduikis, the creators sought to look back at the most significant historical accents that had a significant impact on the development of the Lithuanian scene and the artists who created them. Lithuanian opera, theater and musicals were remembered in pictures and music.
The event brought together the Lithuanian theater community, the most outstanding teachers and elders of today’s theater.
Commemoration of the centenary of Lithuanian opera and drama / Photo by Teodoras Biliūnas
Additional entertainment for the spectators of the event was prepared by the houses of K. and M. Petrauskas of the Museum of the City of Kaunas, who joined in the commemoration, and moved a part of the historic State Theater to the main lobby of the exhibition ” State Theater. Snippets of music “.
In the context of the first Lithuanian opera performance “Traviata”, it was possible to meet interactively with its prominent artists Kipras Petrauskas, Adele Galaunienė, Antanas Sodeika, as well as with Olga Malėjinaitė and Petru Oleka, and, after a century ago, with costume designs. ).
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