Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė (soprano)
Lithuanian soprano Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė is currently a member of the Lithuanian State Orchestra Opera Company.
She studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (with prof. R. Maciūtė) and the Royal Academy of Music, London (with Prof. Joy Mammen). Since she left the Academy in 2010, she has studied with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dennis OʼNeill.
In 2003 Bendžiūnaitė won the first prize in the international “XXI Century Art” contest Kijev-Vorzel. Further prizes include second prize in the “Jonuškaitės- Zaunienės” contest (2006) and the RAM “Pavarotti Prize” (2010). In 2011 she was awarded the honour “Lithuanian Discovery of the Year”.
She has sung the roles of Pamina, Musetta, Sophie (Massenet), Joanna (Sondheim), Ksenia (Mussorgsky), Ist Lady, Nerina (Haydn), Semele and Michaela (concert performance).
Concert appearances have included the Cultural Days of the European Central Bank - European Union (Frankfurt 2008), Tower Festival Gala concert with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (London 2009), St Prex Festival (2010) and a Concert for Sir Colin Davis (London 2011).
Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė has sung with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic chamber Orchestra Musica Humana, Lithuanian National Opera Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburgische Staats Sinfonie Orchester, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta under the conductors A.Vizgirda, R.Šervenikas, G.Rinkevičius, M.Kutson, T.Pinnock, P.Ringborg, R.Stapleton and Sir Charles Mackerras.
In 2011/2012 she will sing Musetta in the Royal Swedish Opera's production of La boheme.
Lithuanian Composers
Giedrius Kuprevičius
Opera Kirvirsaver Island
Albertas Navickas
Beni sais-tu
Voice and Piano
H. Alfen
Saa tag mit hjerte
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mit einem gemalten Band, op.83/3
George Bizet
Ouvre ton Coeur
Johannes Brahms
Vergebliches Standchen
Claude Debussy
Beau soir, L.6
Romansas, L.79
Les cloches, L. 79/2
Payasage sentimental, L.45
Voici que le printemps, L. 52
Leo Delibes
Les filles de Cadix
Jules Massenet
Ouvre tes yeux bleus
Felix Mendelssohn
Gruß (Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt), Op. 19a/5
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart
Das Veilchen / “Našlaitė”, K.476
Ridente la calma, K.152
Xavier Montsalvatge
La nina criolla pasa
Bobby Parker
Steal Away
Sergei Rachmaninov
Oh, never sing to me again
Spring Waters
The little Island
A Dream
Joaquín Rodrigo
El Mirar de la Maja
El Mirar de la Maja
Tres Canciones Espanolas: En Jerez de la Frontera, Adela, De ronda
Igor Stravinsky
Souvenir de mon enfance, Trois petites chansons: La petite pie, La corobeau, Tchitcher – Iatcher
Franz Schubert
Die Forelle (In einem Bächlein helle), D. 550 (op. 32)
Robert Schumann
Intermezzo, Liederkreis, op. 39/2
Widmung, Myrten, op. 25/1
Hugo Wolf
Auch kleine Dinge
Er ist’s
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ах милый мой
То было раннею веснои
Opera
Paul Abraham
Tangolita in opera “Ball in Svoya”
George Bizet
Carmen (Michaela)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Mary in opera "Der bekehrte Trunkenbold"
George Frideric Handel
Semele (Semele)
Joseph Haydn
Nerina in opera “La Fedelta Premiata”
Jules Massenet
Sophie in opera “Werther”
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart
First Lady in opera “Die Zauberflote”
Die Zauberflote (Pamina)
Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov (Ksenia)
S. Parker
Soprano in opera “Myth in conceptual meaning. St. George’s tales”
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Serpina in opera“La serva padrona”
Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme (Musetta)
La Rondine (Lisette)
Arias
Leonard Bernstein
Cunegonde Glitter and be Gay, Candide
George Bizet
Leila Me voi la seule dans la nuit, Les pecheurs de perles
Gaetano Donizetti
Linda Ah, tardai troppo, Linda di Cxamounix
Norina Quel guardo li Cavaliere, Don Pasquale
Charles Gounod
Marguerite The Jewel Song, Faust
George Frideric Handel
How beutiful are the feet of them, from Messiah
Cleopatra V’adoro, pupile, Piangero, Julius Cesare
Gian Carlo Menotti
Monica Monica’s Waltz, The Medium
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart
Blondchen Welche Wonne, Welche Lust, Die entfuhrung aus dem serail
Madame Laura Alma grande e nobil core, I due baroni
Pamina Ach, ich fuhl’s, Die Zauberflote
Jacques Offenbach
Antonia Elle a fui, la tourterelle, Les Contes
Olympia, Les oiseaux dans la charmill
Giacomo Puccini
Lauretta, O mio babbino caro, Gianni Schicchi
Magda, Chi il bel sogno di Doretta, La Rondine
Giuseppe Verdi
Nannetta, Sul fil d’un soffio etesio, Falstaf
Oscar, Saper voreste, Un ballo di maschera
Carl Maria von Weber
Annchen, Kommt ein schlanker Burch gegangen, Die freischutz
Albertas Navickas Ilgo Rudens Muzika
Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė-soprano, Vytenis Gurstis-flute, Martynas Levickis-accordion and Mantautas Katinas-piano
TV show "Triumphal arch" Leon Somov with Asmik Grigorian and Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė
