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The Lithuanian artistic community and general public are eagerly awaiting news from the country’s newest opera house in Klaipėda, which is due to launch in April 2024. The new Klaipėda State Music Theatre will inaugurate with the Grand Opening Gala on 20 April and the first premiere at the newly built theatre – Philip Glass’s opera The Voyage – will open its coming 38th season on 4, 5 and 6 October 2024. We are now pleased to announce that the opera’s maiden voyage in Lithuania will be manned by an all-Italian crew.
The production team for the Lithuanian premiere of The Voyage, written by Philip Glass on commission from the Metropolitan Opera to mark the 500th discovery of the Americas more than three decades ago, in 1992, was selected through an international competition, thereby exposing the theatre to a wide community of artists from all over the world and giving them the opportunity to unleash their creative vision in Lithuania’s third largest city boasting an exceptionally vibrant artistic scene.
Professional directors and their creative teams with experience in musical theatre were invited to take part in the first ever international competition organized by the Klaipėda State Music Theatre. The competition attracted great interest, with 43 teams from Lithuania and abroad including Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland, Mexico, Spain, etc. that applied for the competition and submitted their concepts. At the end of the semi-final round, the jury selected four finalists and their respective teams: Chiara Osella (Italy), Dennis Krauss (Germany), Pia Partum (Poland), and Karina Novikova (Lithuania).
As of 8 March 2024, Italian director Chiara Osella and her team, consisting of Carlo Massari (direction, choreography), Eleonora Peronetti (set design) and Emilia Zagnoli (costume design), were announced the winners of the final round and will soon embark on the realization of their concept for the opera The Voyage by Philip Glass.
For more about the members of the winning team, click here.
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