Vida Miknevičiūtė

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Vida Miknevičiūtė is a Lithuanian opera singer with a soprano voice .

life and work

After attending a music high school, Miknevičiūtė completed her vocal studies at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy , which she completed with a master's degree. An Erasmus grant took the soprano to the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig in 2003 . From 2005 to 2007 she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House . During this time she also made guest appearances at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and at the Theater Basel , won several competitions and received grants. From 2008 to 2010 she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera , where she sang, among others, Hebe and Phani in Les Indes galantes , Pamina, Papagena, Zerlina, Micaëla, Sandmännchen and Gretel, a series of Wagner roles and Adina in Donizetti's L. 'elisir d'amore .

Vida Miknevičiūtė has been a member of the ensemble of the Mainz State Theater since 2011 , where she has developed a broad repertoire from the baroque to operas of the late 20th century and won the approval of the public and the press in popular roles, for example as Violetta Valery in La traviata , as Mimi in La Bohème or as Tatjana in Eugene Onegin . Her diversity is demonstrated in two roles - Lydia Ivanovna in Franz von Suppé's operetta Fatinitza on the one hand, Natalie, Princess of Orange, in Hans Werner Henze's opera The Prince of Homburg from 1960 on the other. In Mainz she also sang Mozart roles, such as Elettra in Idomeneo , or Wagner roles, such as Eva in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg .

Guest appearances have taken the singer as Gretel and Kaiserin to the Staatstheater Kassel , as Donna Elvira to Versailles and Montpellier , in the Mozart roles Pamina and Fiordiligi to Hamburg and as Tatjana to Vilnius . In 2012 she sang Freia in Wagner's Rheingold at a guest performance by the Hamburg State Opera in Brisbane, Australia . In Mainz she was the Gretchen in both famous Faust operas (by Boito and Gounod ) and she is one of the few singers who has performed in all three - occasionally competing - opera houses in the Rhine-Main area : In addition to her permanent engagement, she made guest appearances in Mainz 2014–15 at the Frankfurt Opera as Csárdásfürstin and in 2016 at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as Empress in Uwe Eric Laufenberg's production of Frau ohne Schatten .

In the concert hall, Miknevičiūtė performed the soprano solos in Mozart's Coronation Mass and in his Requiem , in Brahms ' German Requiem , in Mahler's Fourth and in Orff's Carmina Burana . She sang in the Tonhalle Zurich and in the Hamburgische Laeiszhalle , at the Finnish Valery Gergiev Festival in Mikkeli and in her home country Lithuania.

The singer received important musical impulses from well-known conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Hermann Bäumer , Ádám Fischer , Valery Gergiev , Alexander Joel , Peter Schneider and Simone Young . She has also been seen in productions by important directors, including Lorenzo Fioroni , Tilman Knabe , Harry Kupfer , Christof Nel , Vera Nemirova , Tom Ryser , Johannes Schütz and Katharina Thalbach .

Roles (selection)

Bizet :

Boito :

Gounod :

Henze :

Humperdinck :

Grain gold :

Ligeti :

Mozart :

 

Poulenc :

Puccini :

Purcell :

Richard Strauss :

Tchaikovsky :

Verdi :

Wagner :

Awards

  • First prize and audience prize at the Robert Stolz Singing Competition Vienna Operetta
  • Concorso Riccardo Zandonai in Riva del Garda
  • 3rd prize at the operetta, my love singing competition in Kaunas, Lithuania
  • Scholarship holder of the Barenberg Bank for Artistic Development Hamburg

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personal data
SURNAME Miknevičiūtė, Vida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian opera singer with a highly dramatic soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century