Aušrinė Stundytė

Aušrinė Stundytė (* 1976 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian singer ( soprano ).

Life

From 1994 to 2000 Aušrinė Stundytė studied singing at the Music and Theater Academy of Lithuania with Irena Milkevičiūtė , as well as social work at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Vilnius and from 2000 as a DAAD scholarship holder at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig with Helga Forner . Stundytė sang in the ensemble of the Cologne Opera , including Nedda in Pagliacci , Mimi in La Bohème , Agathe in Der Freischütz and Cho-Cho-San in Madama Butterfly . In 2014 she played Katerina in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in a performance at the Antwerp Opera.

In 2008, Aušrinė Stundytė received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association in Cologne and has been awarded several prizes.

At the Salzburg Festival 2020 she sings Elektra in the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss .

Stundytė is married to a Greek singer and lives in Cologne .

Awards

• Music Prize of RWE-Energie AG 2001
• Special award from the Chambre Professionnelle des Directeurs d'Opéra Paris
• Special prize of the Helikon Opera in Moscow
• 2nd prize operetta at the 25th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna

Web links

• Aušrinė Stundytė's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life (LT, EN)
2. ↑ Aušrinė Stundytė: "Kai esu ant scenos, atiduodu viską"
3. ↑ Cologne Opera
4. ↑ Life ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (vivacearts.de) 
5. ^ Frieder Reininghaus: Lady Macbeth von Mzensk: Opera that goes to the point , review of March 22, 2014 in the series Kultur heute of Deutschlandfunk
6. ↑ # Lady Macbeth uit het district Mtsensk ( Memento from April 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Antwerp Opera (Dutch)
7. ↑ 2008 scholarship holders ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Richard Wagner Association Cologne)