Viktorija Bakan

Viktorija Bakan is a Lithuanian opera singer ( soprano ) who is currently engaged in the young ensemble of the Theater an der Wien .

life and work

Bakan studied from 2000 with Regina Maciūtė and Virgilijus Noreika at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy in Vilnius . After engagements at the Lithuanian National Opera - u. a. as Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and as Xenia in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow - she made her debut in Estonia in 2007 as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto . In 2008 Violetta Valery followed in Verdi's La traviata at the Latvian National Opera , and the following year she sang Gilda in Lithuania.

From 2010 to 2012 the singer was engaged in the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House . In the main house she entered u. a. as Pamina in the Magic Flute and as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro , the latter role under the direction of Christopher Hogwood . She could be seen and heard as the flower girl in Parsifal (conducted by Daniele Gatti ) and as the Polowetz girl in Fürst Igor (conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev ). She sang Norina in Donizetti's I pazzi per progetto under Paolo Carignani , four times Titania and three times Elf Spinnweb in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream .

She made her debut at the Theater an der Wien in November 2012 as Premiére grecque in Torsten Fischer's production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide . Since the 2014/15 season she has been a member of the Young Ensemble of the Theater an der Wien and in October 2014 she sang Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin for the first time and successfully - at the Vienna Chamber Opera .

The singer is married to bass Igor Bakan .

personal data
SURNAME	Bakan, Victoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lithuanian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century