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VILNIUS FESTIVAL 2016
Path of the Planets
June in the Sky and Music
3–21 June
Vilnius
Friday 3 d. June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Opening concert of the festival with Angela Gheorghiu
ANGELA GHEORGHIU (soprano, Romania)
MARIUS BRENCIU (tenor, Romania)
Conductor CIPRIAN TEODORASCU (Romania)
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA (music director Robertas Šervenikas)
Host EGLĖ ULIENĖ
Programme
The most beautiful opera arias, duets and overtures by Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito,
Francesco Cilea, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Piotr Tchaikovsky,
Alfredo Catalani, Franz Lehár
The opening evening of the twentieth Vilnius Festival will undoubtedly turn into the musical event of
the entire year. For the first time in Lithuania, we shall welcome the opera superstar Angela Gheorghiu,
the most glamorous and gifted opera singer of our time, who is also often called one of today’s most
beautiful women working in the sphere of theatre. Originally from Romania, the famous singer made
her professional debut as Mimi in Puccini’s masterpiece La bohème. Her impressive career later
extended into the most important opera theatres and concert halls of the world – the star of her unique
talent shone brightly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera Covent Garden in London,
“Staatsoper” in Vienna, “La Scala” in Milan and many other venues, concerts and opera performances
have taken her to Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Chicago, Los Angeles, many other cities in Europe and
the USA.
Ms. Gheorghiu will be joined on stage by famous Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu, who made his debut
at the Bucharest Opera in 1997. Having won many international competitions (among which were Julien
Gaillardo’s competition, Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, “Auditorium” in New York), in 2001 he became
the first Romanian soloist to win the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Mr.
Brenciu is currently performing at the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Royal Opera Covent Garden
(London), “Staatsoper” in Vienna, opera theatres in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Munich, Lisbon,
Geneva, Florence, Rome, Tel Aviv and elsewhere.
The concert also features the LNOBT’s symphony orchestra led by Ciprian Teodoraşcu, a conductor at
the Bucharest National Opera Theatre.
Tickets – 45, 55, 65, 80, 100, 200 Eur
Sunday 5 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall
Faustas Latėnas. Music as Theatre
Concert to mark the 60th anniversary of composer FAUSTAS LATĖNAS, a recipient of
the Lithuanian National Prize
INDRĖ BAIKŠTYTĖ (piano), RŪTA LIPINAITYTĖ (violin), TOMAS PETRIKIS (viola),
DAVID GERINGAS (cello), GIEDRIUS GELGOTAS (flute)
RENATA MARCINKUTĖ-LESIEUR (organ)
FORTVIO Piano Trio. ARTVIO String Quartet
ČIURLIONIS QUARTET
VILNIUS State Choir (principal conductor Artūras Dambrauskas)
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(artistic director and principal conductor Modestas Pitrėnas)
Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS
Host of the concert VIKTORAS GERULAITIS
The programme compiled by DALIA BALSYTĖ
Programme
Woks by FAUSTAS LATĖNAS: piece for string quartet ...in extremis...; Sonata for violin and
piano; piano trio Žvilgsnis pro aštunto aukšto langą (A Look Through the Window on the
Eight-floor); Sonata for flute and piano; Samba lacrimarum for violin and piano; Pasodoble for
viola and piano; Sonata for cello and piano; Agnus Dei for choir, organ and orchestra; string
quartet No. 2 Šviesiam atminimui (In Loving Memory)
Faustas Latėnas’ creative output amounts to over 200 works for theatre productions, as well as
documentaries, feature and TV films in Lithuania and abroad, in addition to about fifty orchestral
compositions and a large number of chamber music opuses. In 2015, the composer was awarded the
Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize for “The sounding Lithuanian theatre, and music as a
worthwhile counterpart in theatrical action”. Latėnas is most noticeably infixed in the realm of theatre.
Even his concert chamber music showcases theatricality – eloquent narration, emotions, ‘smiling
through tears’. According to musicologist Viktoras Gerulaitis, Latėnas’ instrumental chamber music
opuses constitute small musical spectacles where every musical gesture has a specific meaning often
known to the composer only. He does not shun from banality or various reminiscences of familiar
music, the strangest hypertrophied climaxes or provoking combinations. He is confident, that “to encode
the inner tension one does not necessarily need many notes or sophisticated verbosity. It could be
achieved with simple and known subjects, uncomplicated harmony.” In one of his interviews given
earlier this year Latėnas admitted:” It seems to me that I already composed all my concert music. As
majority of other composers, I wrote it before I turned 35-36. Later many of us only try to perfect what
has been already written down. I do not complain – my concert music enjoys popularity to this day. And
not only in Lithuania. Music for theatre fascinates me because when working on it I feel as if being on a
life and artistic journey: new pieces, rehearsals, new actors, new ventures”. Thus, the concert dedicated
to Latėnas’ 60th anniversary features his early works composed in 1977–1990, encapsulating the theatre
spirit and passionate palette of Astor Piazzolla, presented by both long-time and younger performers of
music by the hero of the day. The eventing’s highlight – one of his most known opuses – string quartet
Šviesiam atminimui (In Loving Memory) arranged for symphony orchestra.
Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40 Eur
Tuesday 7 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Budapest Festival Orchestra Salutes Vilnius
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (Hungary)
Conductor IVÁN FISCHER (Hungary)
Soloist DÉNES VÁRJON (piano, Hungary)
Host EGLĖ ULIENĖ
Programme
IGOR STRAVINSKY – Jeu de cartes
FERENC LISZT – Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in A major, S. 125 / R. 456
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK – Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
Internationally acclaimed Budapest Festival Orchestra appears in the Vilnius Festival for the first time.
Established more than thirty years ago it is often heard in such concert venues as Musikverein and
Konzerthaus in Vienna, Salzburg Summer Festival, Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées in Paris, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Suntory Hall in Tokyo,
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Royal Festival Hall in London. The Budapest Festival Orchestra has
collaborated with Sir Georg Solti, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Kurt Sanderling, Charles Dutoit, Gidon
Kremer, Martha Argerich, Agnes Baltsa, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Radu Lupu to name but a few great
masters.
The podium will be graced by Iván Fischer, the artistic director and one of the founders of the
Orchestra. He has been at the Orchestra’s helm for thirty years. Fischer regularly collaborates with
Berlin Philharmonics, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and various American orchestras. In 2008–2010,
he was the principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington; currently he is the
principal conductor of Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
Pianist Dénes Várjon is a universal musician: excellent soloist, first-class chamber musician, highly
sought after piano pedagogue and artistic leader of festivals. As a soloist Várjon has appeared with
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonics, Chamber
Orchestra of Europe, Kremerata Baltica, London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and other
orchestras. The pianist has recorded for the Naxos, ECM, Teldec and Capriccio labels, appeared at
leading international festivals from Edinburgh to Salzburg.
Tickets – 35, 40, 50, 70, 80, 120 Eur
Thursday 9 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall
Symphony in Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas
Soloist ŽILVINAS BRAZAUSKAS (clarinet)
Conductor KERI-LYNN WILSON (Canada)
Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ
Programme
JEAN FRANÇAIX – Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
GUSTAV MAHLER – Symphony No. 5
This concert is dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007), a legendary cellist, the world-famous
musician and humanist, a long-time friend and colleague of Lithuanian musical community.
Rostropovich could deservedly be called the godfather of the Vilnius Festival, which was launched on
June 2, 1997 with the LNOBT’s ballet Romeo and Juliet under his baton. Rostropovich and Lithuanian
musicians enjoyed a special comradeship. Before emigrating from the USSR, he often performed in
Lithuania: in the beginning of the 1980s he conducted Tosca at the LNOBT (with V. Noreika and G.
Vishnevskaya), in 1991 he led the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in Spain. Having initiated a charitable
concert in support of Lithuania’s independence, he said: ”Everything associated with Lithuania is dear
to me”. On his visit to already independent Lithuania Maestro gave a concert with Washington
Symphony Orchestra in the LNOBT on October 2, 1993; the following year organised the tour of the
LNOBT’s group in Germany; in 1995 he was the soloist in Dvořák’s famous Cello Concerto at the
Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall; in 2001 he conducted the LNSO in the programme dedicated to
the 125th birth anniversary of M.K. Čiurlionis at the prestigious Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Tonight we will meet clarinettist Žilvinas Brazauskas, the Mstislav Rostropovich Charity and Support
Foundation scholarship holder (2007–2011), a winner of national and international competitions, and
participant of various festivals. The podium will be graced by Canadian conductor Kerri-Lynn Wilson,
former assistant to the legendary baton master Abbado in Salzburg Festival, and conducting fellow at
the Tanglewood Music Center.
Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40 Eur
Friday 10 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall
Mozart According to B’Rock
B’ROCK ORCHESTRA (Belgium)
Soloist and Artistic Director ALEXANDER MELNIKOV (historic piano, Russia)
Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ
Programme
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Serenade for orchestra No. 6 in D major, KV 239
(Serenata Notturna); Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425 (Linz); Concerto for piano and
orchestra No. 17 in G major, KV 453
Set up in 2005, the Belgian Baroque Orchestra B’Rock is one of the world’s leading collectives
specialising in historically well-founded performance practices. It involves over twenty international
musicians. The Orchestra gives about 45 concerts every season, both in Belgium and abroad. Its
appearances are always theatrical, exciting and often stunning. For its concert programmes, B'Rock
combines established works of baroque composition with the lesser-known repertoire of the 17th and
18th centuries as well as contemporary music.
The Baroque Orchestra has appeared in various concert halls and festivals including Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Cité de la Musique Paris, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, London’s
Wigmore Hall, Holland Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Operadagen Rotterdam and Bremen Musikfest to
name but a few; collaborated with prominent soloists and choirs.
Tonight’s soloist Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov discovered a career-long interest in historically
informed performance practice at an early age. His major influences in this field include Andreas Staier
and Alexei Lubimov. Melnikov performs regularly with such distinguished period ensembles as the
Concerto Köln and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. The pianist has earned numerous awards for his
recordings of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Weber’s music. As a soloist, Melnikov has performed with
orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Philadelphia
Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Russian National Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and Rotterdam
Philharmonic among other orchestras.
Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40 Eur
Sunday 12 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Jules Massenet. Opera Manon
Artistic director and conductor CYRIL DIEDERICH (France)
Singers: Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Michael Spadaccini (Belgium), Eugenijus Chrebtovas, Julija
Karaliūnaitė, Vilhelma Mončytė, Joana Stanelytė, Liudas Mikalauskas, Šarūnas Šapalas,
Rafailas Karpis, Vladas Bagdonas
Along with Gounod’s Faust and Bizet’s Carmen, Jules Massenet’s Manon is one of the most famous
and beloved French operas in the repertoires of opera theatres. At the LNOBT the premiere of Manon
was presented on 18 September, 2015. The production immediately attracted everyone’s attention and
was greeted with very positive reviews from both the audience and the critics. According to the theatre’s
general manager Gintautas Kėvišas, the main criterion for choosing creative team for Manon was its
relation to the French operatic tradition. Thus, on the stage one can see the authentic chatter from the
streets of Paris and the spellbinding charm of La Belle Époque.
What makes this opera so attractive, even after 130 years have passed since its premiere at the Opéra
Comique theatre in Paris on 19 January, 1884? The storyline of Manon itself contains a great amount of
historical, psychological and social meanings that reach out to the consciousness of a contemporary
human being, appealing to everyone’s personal feelings. And still, the central element of this opera is
one woman’s drama, the “score” of her ambivalent experiences that never seems to change even as the
ages pass. Massenet, the talented creator of melodies and lyricism, was also a profound psychologist
who was capable of expressing a wide palette of emotions with which he painted impressive portraits of
women. His sensitively nuanced music, filled with honest intimacy, still stirs the hearts of audiences
around the world.
Massenet manages to create an effective sound with a relatively modest amount of instruments. In his
operas French text is masterfully combined with supple melodies, and the music itself is kind to the
voices of opera soloists. It is gentle, peaceful, refined and subtle, overflowing with emotions and
orchestral virtuosity, which combines scintillating velocity with transparency and an undeniable
theatrical instinct. All operas by Massenet also serve as the most beautiful and intelligent examples of
the culturally rich historical time La Belle Époque. The most popular of such operas, Manon, was
unbelievably successful – its premieres followed one after another in the most important theatres of
Europe and America. The opera was presented in Liverpool and New York (1885), London’s Royal
Opera House (1891), Metropolitan Opera (1895; the theatre welcomed more than 300 different stagings
of Manon!), San Francisco Opera Theatre (1924). Today, there exist thousands of performances and
productions of Manon. Up to our days the number of productions of Manon are counted by thousands:
until 1919 Opéra-Comique performed the opera 1000 times, by 1952 – 2000 times. In Lithuania Manon
was presented in 1939 in Kaunas, and later, in 1964, it was welcomed in the city of Vilnius. According
to Operabase, in 2012-2013 Massenet was the 20th most popular opera composer in the world, and the
4th creator among his French colleagues, following G. Bizet, J. Offenbach and Ch. Gounod.
Tickets – 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 38 Eur
Monday 13 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall
The Four Seasons to mark Lord Yehudi Menuhin’s Centenary
LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Artistic director, conductor and soloist SERGEJ KRYLOV (violin, Italy)
Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ
Programme
LORETA NARVILAITĖ – Į krantą jūra krenta (The Sea Breaks on the Shore) for string
orchestra (2016, premiere of the festival)
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK – Serenade for strings in E major, Op. 22
ANTONIO VIVALDI – Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), four concertos for violin and
string orchestra: No. 1 in E major, La primavera (Spring), RV 269; No. 2 in G minor, L'estate
(Summer), RV 315; No. 3 in F major, L'autunno (Autumn), RV 293; No. 4 in F minor,
L'inverno (Winter), RV 297
This concert is dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Lord Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), the great
humanist, legendary violinist and conductor, and close ally of Lithuanian musicians. The recipient of the
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas as well as the Lithuanian Academy of Music and
Theatre Honorary Doctorate, Menuhin collaborated with many a Lithuanian musician and collective.
Only just with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir he gave 59 concerts, recorded
two oratorios: Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Creation. Standing ovations filled concert halls in
Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia and Egypt. Menuhin
affectionately called the members of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir “my
Lithuanians”; while in his memoirs Unterwegs he described the LCO as magnificent.
Concert programme features Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) with the LCO’s artistic
director Sergej Krylov, always brimming with unique ideas, as a soloist; Dvořák’s Serenade for strings
in E major, Op. 22; and premiere of the Festival – Loreta Narvilaitė’s Į krantą jūra krenta (The Sea
Breaks on the Shore) for string orchestra. “I named the opus after a poem by Antanas A. Jonynas. The
sea is the movement and energy, the shore – the stasis. The sea is a mighty power; it alters the shore,
washes away dunes. When working on the composition, I saw an image of the Dutchman’s Cap hill
being continuously destroyed by the braking waves. There is no other slope on Lithuanian seashore as
steep as this one. It was a place for putting warning signs for ships. Their signals can be heard in the
composition, as can the screams of seagulls floating high above. Brief waving lines are reminiscent of
sutartinės,” says the composer.
Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40, 50 Eur
Wednesday 15 June, 19.00
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Hector Berlioz’s Requiem. Speak Out, You Heavens
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas
Soloist GUSTAVO PORTA (tenor, Italy)
KAUNAS STATE CHOIR
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Petras Bingelis
CHORUS OF THE LITHUANIAN NATIONAL OPERA
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Česlovas Radžiūnas
LITHUANIAN ARMED FORCES ORCHESTRA GROUP
(leader cpt. Egidijus Ališauskas)
Conductor CYRIL DIEDERICH (France)
Host EGLĖ ULIENĖ
Programme
HECTOR BERLIOZ – Requiem (Grande Messe des morts), Op. 5
To mark the Day of Mourning the Vilnius Festival presents Berlioz’s Requiem, which he composed in
1837 after receiving an offer to write music in remembrance of the victims of the French Révolution de
Juillet. He wrote in his letter to his sister: “At first the poem of the Dies irae so intoxicated and excited
me that nothing lucid came to me.” Berlioz considered Requiem to be his best composition. Dramatic
musical intent, a premonition of catastrophe rather than anticipation of blissful tranquillity, the nervous
agitation and strong contrasts permeating Berlioz’ opus set it apart from its reserved and lyrical
precursors – Requiem by Mozart or Verdi.
Berlioz has conceived it for huge performing forces – 500 or 600 musicians. Tonight this monumental
opus will be performed by the LNSO and the Lithuanian Armed Forces Orchestra, Kaunas State Choir
and the LNOBT choir. Soloist – tenor Gustavo Porta appears in various opera theatres around the globe,
conductor – French Maestro Cyril Diederich, whom Lithuanian audience remembers leading the
premiere of Manon in the LNOBT in 2015.
Tickets – 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 38 Eur
Saturday 18 June, 19.00
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Giuseppe Verdi. Opera Don Carlos
Artistic director and conductor PIERRE VALLET (France)
Singers: Askar Abdrazakov (Russia), Adam Diegel (USA), Eugenijus Chrebtovas, Liudas
Mikalauskas, Česlovas Nausėda, Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Eglė Šidlauskaitė, Gunta Gelgotė, Ina
Tervydytė, Vladas Bagdonas, Žygimantas Galinis, Arūnas Malikėnas, Deividas Staponkus,
Šarūnas Šapalas, Rokas Šveisteris
LNOBT‘s latest premiere, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Don Carlo, immediately turned into one of the most
significant theatre productions, and the extremely diverse opinions that it caused only prove the fact that
this version of G. Verdi’s masterpiece generates a very strong impact on its viewers. And how could it
be any different? After all, Don Carlo (which is perceived as a representation of the grand opera genre)
is a majestic work of art not only because of its wonderful musical material, but also due to the
impressive historical characters and dramatic storyline. The creative team of the current production
presented their own version of Don Carlo, refusing all sorts of theatrical illustrations and instead
focusing on the revelation of deepest layers of meaning, hidden within music and text. This new
production of Don Carlo was created by the famous German visionary director Günter Krämer,
prominent conductor Pierre Vallet, who is in demand all over the world, and set designer-dramaturg
Herbert Schäfer.
G. Verdi’s Don Carlo was first unveiled to the audiences in 1867, in Paris. Opera itself was written after
Friedrich Schiller’s play. The latter contained everything that G. Verdi was looking for: having left
behind superficial dramatic theatricality and librettos filled with romantic passions, he settled upon
works that displayed a great deal of concealed tragedy. These works no longer possessed the overactive
action on the exterior – instead, they were overflowing with inner turmoil, quests to find the real human
values and longing for humanity itself.
As a genius master of the dramaturgy of music, Verdi was very much aware of the fact that a political
drama on its own is far less handy when it comes to showing audience's favourite passionate collisions
of feelings that are usually present in stories of dramas within families. Thus, in Don Carlo he merged
the two spheres together, creating the perfect collision between personal, political and ideological
conflicts. Verdi was only 53 when the score for Grand Opera in Paris was completed, however, he spent
around 20 years editing, abridging Don Carlo, omitting some of its scenes and putting them back into
the score... No other opera had so many editions and corrections. According to conductor Pierre Vallet,
“in Verdi’s score one can hear many times when he bowed to convention established by the Parisian
public, and when he is his own master. It is worth wondering how the opera would have sounded
without all these conventions. This is what Günter and I embarked to do. We tightened the action and
increased the tension of the drama. We made musical cuts to intensify the impact of the music and we
sometimes rearranged the order of the scenes for greater continuity. We feel confident that Verdi would
have been quite excited about this version“.
The main goal of the director was to delve deep into G. Verdi’s opera and eliminate all possible clichés
that have been plaguing it ever since it was first presented on the Parisian stage in the 19th century.
According to G. Krämer, while listening to ballet or entourage scenes one can obviously hear that it is
“empty music”. “G. Verdi was very much aware of conventions and wrote those scenes for the Parisian
boudoir. He prepared eight versions of Don Carlo, which only proves the fact that he himself was not
fully happy with the final result and form of the work.”
G. Krämer’s production is filled with unexpected theatrical solutions and interesting correlations. He
was affected and inspired by the rock star David Bowie’s spectacular farewell message, his final album
Blackstar. Since one of the central scenes of Don Carlo is that of an auto-da-fe arranged by the Spanish
Inquisition, the aesthetics of the video for album’s title song Blackstar have become certain point of
departure for the staging.
All inspirations generate a maximum strength of impact for the audience.
Tickets – 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 38 Eur
Monday 20 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall
Mūza Rubackytė’s Recital Duality
MŪZA RUBACKYTĖ (piano; Lithuania, France, Switzerland)
Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ
Programme
ROBERT SCHUMANN – Arabeske, Op. 18; Carnaval, Op. 9
MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS – Preludes: B minor, VL 169; D minor,
VL 294; F minor, VL 197; Nocturnes: F sharp minor, VL 178; C sharp minor, VL 183
SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Piano sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
This year pianist Mūza Rubackytė brings to Vilnius Festival a recital with an enigmatic title: Duality.
She has chosen to program Robert Schumann, an individual that had suffered from despondence and
inner contradictions, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, possessed by two passions – music and
painting, and Sergei Prokofiev, ravaged by a totalitarian regime and having matured in a free world. The
pianist quotes poet Charles Baudelaire: “An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of
beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and
contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
With every concert appearance Rubackytė sets the door ajar to her rich world saturated with life and
artistic experience. It seems that she takes one by hand and ushers to uncharted territories through
imprinting the well-known compositions with distinct and unique meanings.
A recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize and the 3rd Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke
Gediminas, internationally recognised pianist performs in all continents, gives recitals in prestigious
halls such as Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Salle
Gaveau and Opera in Paris, Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Auditorio Blas Galant
in Mexico, Santiago, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Casals Hall in Tokyo, etc. Rubackytė is the
founder and artistic director of the Vilnius Piano Music Festival, Professor at the Lithuanian Academy
of Music and Theatre; leads master classes around the globe.
Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40, 50 Eur
Tuesday 21 June, 19.00 Compensa Concert Hall
Maraca & his Latin Jazz All Stars Septet
The Fleeting Night of Jazz
ORLANDO VALLE MARACA (flute, group leader, arranger)
STEVE TURRE (trombone, Conch shells)
ROBBY AMEEN (percussion)
MARIO CANONGE (piano)
ORLANDO POLEO (percussion)
FELIPE CABRERA (double bass)
TIM MAYER (saxophone)
Host JULIJUS GRICKEVIČIUS
The fiery flutist Orlando Valle Maraca and his Latin Jazz All Stars Septet proceed with their European
tour! After concerts in Mexico and the coveted Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris Maraca comes to Lithuania!
In fact, with Otra Visión jazz group he has appeared in the Vilnius Festival in 2003. Orlando Valle
Maraca is one of the leading flutists in Latin America, and also has outstanding reputation as a pianist,
composer and arranger. He is the Grammy nominee and according to Island Beat (2000) plays the
leading role in Cuban music evolution. He started his career in groups of Emiliano Salvador and Bobby
Carcassès, was a member of and arranger for Chucho Valdés’ Irakere, the world’s best Latin jazz group
at the time. Before long he got interested in music aspects that are vernacular to both American and
Cuban music claiming that jazz and Cuban music share the African rhythmic and intonation patterns. “I
learned the most when making music with others: their energy fascinated me – we share it when playing
together,” says Maraca. “In Cuban music I find elements of three cultures – African, Spanish and
French. This music originated from their combination. Today Cuban musicians are hardly interested in
their roots, while for me getting back to it is very important.” This time the flute virtuoso and improviser
Maraca invites to a musical journey together with his Latin Jazz All Stars Septet, which has given
concerts around the globe. Inspired by the native music traditions as well as legacy of Cuban composers,
their music presents an intriguing blend of jazz and Afro-Cuban style phenomenally enriched by the
refreshing solos of Maraca’s Cuban flute. And all of this is heightened by the mastery of Maraca’s
partners ranked among the most spellbinding jazzmen, Grammy winners and nominees, jazz innovators:
American luminaries Steve Turre (trombone, Conch shells), Robby Ameen (percussion) and Tim Mayer
(saxophone), promising Venezuelan percussionist Orlando Poleo, outstanding pianist Mario Canonge
from Martinique and talented Cuban double bassist Felipe Cabrera. For the Vilnius Festival audience
the musicians present a programme based on the repertoire of Maraca and his colleagues most famous
DVD (Reencuentros, live at the Grand Theater of Havana), which was voted the best recording of the
year. According to the world press, this music is a dream, history and assertion that our differences can
be shared to conquer the prejudices. Wherever they perform, they make the borders disappear and
music, smiles and creative freedom reign.
Tickets – 18, 25, 33 Eur
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Organizers of the 20th Vilnius festival:
Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, PI „Vilnius festivals“ and Vilnius City Municipality
www.vilniusfestival.lt
Organisers of the Festival reserve the right to change concert programmes and performers. The information is correct at the time of going to
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HOW TO BOOK
Via Internet – 24-hour service, which takes only few minutes and doesn’t include purchase charge (transaction fees may apply).
In person at the National Philharmonic Box Office (to the Festival events on June 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 20). Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10 am–7
pm (lunch brake 1.30 pm–2 pm), Sun 10 am–12 noon. Information and booking by telephone: (+370 5) 266 52 33, 266 52 16; mobile +370 698
52 075, +370 698 51 954; e-mail [email protected]
In person at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre Box Office (to events on June 3, 7, 12, 15, 18). Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10 am–7 pm,
Sat 10 am–6.30 pm, Sun 10 am–3 pm. In case there is a performance on Sunday evening, the Box Office is open until curtain up. Information
and booking by telephone: (+370 5) 262 07 27; mobile +370 615 51 000, +370 612 46 614; www.opera.lt
Via National Ticketing System BILIETAI LT. Information and bookings at www.bilietai.lt or in BILIETAI LT Box Offices. Service charges
apply.