Eimuntas Nekrošius

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.

Un immeuble dégradé, quelque part en Lituanie. Dans un silence épais et une lumière charbonneuse, les gens qui y vivent ne font qu'attendre. Parfois, ils se déplacent jusqu'à la fenêtre et jettent un oeil dehors, sur les toits enneigés. Une fête improvisée dans l'un des appartements a-t-elle quelque chance de réunir ces égarés ? L'alcool, la musique et la séduction opèrent, puis, au petit matin, la fête finie, reste la solitude...

About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...

The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army's entry to Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that 'is contemporary and even fairly advanced'. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.

Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself.

Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself.