January 09 / 2012
Operos Švyturiai Awarding Ceremony
Operos Švyturiai (Beacon Awards), one of the most beautiful traditions of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, is celebrating this year its tenth anniversary. It has been for the tenth time now that, following the assessment of all the performances staged in the National Opera Theatre throughout the last year, the best opera and ballet achievers have been selected to be awarded for their outstanding performance.
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This year's awards ceremony has been arranged differently than usual. On 6 January, the National Opera invited everybody to Operos Švyturiai Gala Concert with a bouquet of last year's Awards winners, the best National Opera and Ballet Opera soloists, and the Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robertas Šervenikas.
Sigutė Stonytė and Vaidas Vyšniauskas have reaped the major awards, while Kipras Chlebinskas has been awarded for the star debut of the year. The other two performers awarded for their merits on the ballet stage have been Olga Konošenko and Martinas Rimeikis.
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