Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė SOPRANO BIOGRAPHY
Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė is a Lithuanian soprano who studied at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy and the Royal Academy of Music, London. Following her early appearances as a member of Vilnius City Opera and as a guest artist with the Lithuanian National Opera and the Royal Swedish Opera, she then joined the ensemble at Stuttgart State Opera where her roles included Musetta, Änchen, Susanna, Zerlina, Dalinda (Ari- odante), Karolka and die Dirne (Reigen) under Sylvain Cambreling, Daniele Rustioni, Kyrill Karabits, Ben Gernon and Crystian Curnyn. For the Opéra National du Rihn she has sung the roles of Susanna and Despina.
Her concert repertoire is wide, ranging from Purcell to works of the 21st century. She has appeared with The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic orchestra, Warsaw Philhar-monic Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Orchestra and Malmö Symphony Orchestra and on tour with the Basle Chamber Orchestra in halls such as Elbphilhar-monie, Laeishalle, Lucerne KKL, Dresden Frauenkirche, Stuttgart Liederhalle.
For Malmö Live, she sang Les Noçes with Robert Trevino. At the Contemporary Music Festival Gaida she gave the first Lithuanian performance of Hans Abrahams ‘Let me tell you’ with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. Under Gintaras Rinkevicius and the Lithuanian State Symphony Or-chestra she performed Schönberg’s Gurrelieder and works by Britten and Lutoslawski. She will join them this season in a performance of Carl Orff’s Trionfo di Aphrodite, Szymanowski King Roger (Roxana) and Mahler’s No.8 Symphony.
After opening this season in Pisa Anima Mundi Festival with Mendelssohn Lobgesang, she repeated the role along with Psalm 42 in Tokyo with the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo under Trevor Pinnock. This season she returns to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw to perform Bach’s Johannes Pas-sion with the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra.
As Cultural Ambassador for Neringa Cultural Capital 2021, she launched a production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea. She has followed this with an innovative programme of operas for children in asso-ciation with Frederic Wake Walker’s ‘Mahogany Opera’.
