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The premiere of the opera “The Marriage of Figaro” by W.A.Mozart will be presented at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th of February at 6.30 p.m.

The role of the Count will be performed by the soloist from Austria Klemens Sander in the first two performances.

The head of musical part and the conductor of the opera of 2 parts in Italian is Martynas Staškus.
Director – Emilio Sagi (Spain),
Stage designer – Daniel Bianco (Spain),
Artist of costumes – Renata Schussheim (Argentina),
Artist of lights – Eduardo Bravo (Spain, AAI),
Choreographer – Nuria Castejón (Spain),
Head of the choir – Česlovas Radžiūnas.

The main roles and soloists: Susanna - Joana Gedmintaitė, Asmik Grigorian, Regina Šilinskaitė, Countess Rosina - Sandra Janušaitė, Sigutė Stonytė, Count Almaviva - Vytautas Juozapaitis, Dainius Stumbras, Figaro - Egidijus Dauskurdis, Liudas Norvaišas, Kostas Smoriginas, Count’s page - Ona Kolobovaitė, Marta Lukošiūtė, Vilija Mikštaitė.

Klemens Sander was born in Upper Austria. As a child, he was a member of the St. Florian Boy’s Choir. His formal education took him to the University for Music and Applied Arts, Vienna and to the Conservatory of the City of Vienna, where he studied Opera, Lied and Oratorio with Helena Lazarska, Robert Holl and David Lutz. Additionally, Klemens Sander took part in masterclasses with Thomas Hampson, Gundula Janowitz, Dagmar Pecková and Hartmut Höll.

Prizes he has won include the Richard Tauber Prize for singers (Wigmore Hall London, 2003), the Margie Wiedemann Lied Prize at the International Competition in S´Hertogenbosch (Netherlands 2002), 2nd prize (with no 1st prize given) at the Ada Sary International Competition (Poland 2002) and a 2nd prize (with no 1st prize given) in the prestigious Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, Germany. In 2001/2002 he was awarded a scholarship by the Thyll Dürr Foundation.

Klemens Sander made his operatic debut in 2001 at the Vienna Volksoper. Between 2003-2006 he was engaged as a soloist at the Opera House of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he performed roles including Papageno (Magic Flute), Conte Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Belcore (L´elisir d´Amore), Marcello (La Bohème), Ping (Turandot), Donner (Das Rheingold) and Onegin (Eugene Onegin). Guest engagements from 2005 have taken Klemens to the Neue Oper Vienna, where he performed Seikyo in Tan Dun's opera TEA, Salzburg Festival (Die Gezeichneten), Grand Theatre Luxembourg (Papageno in Magic Flute), Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Donner in Das Rheingold) and to the Theater an der Wien (Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Diaglogues des Carmèlites and Intermezzo). In the summer of 2008, Klemens Sander made his debut in the title role of Don Giovanni in a new production at the opera festival Klosterneuburg.

Besides opera, Klemens Sander is an active recitalist and concert singer. In 2005 he made his recital debut at Wigmore Hall, London with Charles Spencer (piano). In 2008 he performed Schubert's Winterreise with Justus Zeyen (piano) at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He has appeared in many of the great concert halls of the world including the Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Suntory Hall Tokyo and at various European festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Chamber Music Festival Lockenhaus, Carinthischer Sommer and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. He has worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Bertrand de Billy, Georges Prêtre, Franz Welser-Möst, Leopold Hager, Helmuth Rilling, René Jacobs, Martin Haselböck, Christopher Moulds, Christian Arming and Andreas Spering.

Upcoming projects include, amongst others, Britten's Death In Venice for the Theater an der Wien, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Musikverein, a recital with Justus Zeyen (piano) at the Centre des Arts Pluriels in Luxembourg, Bach's St. John Passion in Bordeaux and Schumann's Genoveva at the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw, Poland.

Tickets: from LTL 20 to 200.

According to LNOBT info