Concert of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra together with International Superstar Anne-Sophie Mutter
In 2011, the end of the summertime marks a very special event in the context of Lithuanian and European cultural life: on 29 August, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre shall welcome one of the five best orchestras in the world, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (USA). Another exciting surprise is that the orchestra shall be performing together with the charismatic violinist and international superstar Anne-Sophie Mutter (Germany). Conductor of the concert is the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Manfred Honeck from Austria.
Visiting Lithuania for the first time, the performers bring with them a very unique and moving program of Romantic music. In Vilnius we shall hear one of the most precious jewels of the repertoire for violin, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Concert for violin and orchestra E minor; also in the program is Piotr Tchaikovsky’s mesmerizing Symphony No. 5. Ms. Mutter shall also perform a piece of music that was written especially for her - “Lichtes Spiel”, created by the leading contemporary German composer Wolfgang Rihm (the program is subject to change).
For 35 years, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has sustained a career of exceptional musicianship with an unwavering commitment to the future of classical music. Since her international debut at the Lucerne Festival in 1976, followed by a solo appearance with Herbert von Karajan at the Salzburg Whitsun Concerts, Ms. Mutter has appeared in all the major concert halls of Europe, North and South America and Asia. In addition to performing and recording the established masterpieces of the violin repertoire, Ms. Mutter is an avid champion of 20th- and 21st-century violin repertoire in both orchestral and chamber music settings. Cited by The Chicago Tribune for doing more than “any living violinist to enrich the late 20th-Century violin repertory,” Ms. Mutter has had new works composed for her by Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutoslawski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir André Previn and Wolfgang Rihm. She also devotes her time to numerous charity projects and supports the development of young, exceptionally talented musicians.

About the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
The Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre is a national budgetary institution committed to organising the creation and production of scenic works for musical theatre and assuring their public performance on the highest artistic level. The theatre operates as an institution founded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Opera in Lithuania goes back to the early 17th century. In 36 years after the genre had originated in Florence, an opera, Il ratto di Helena, written by an anonymous composer and set to a libretto by the then famous Italian librettist and musician, Virgilio Puccitelli, was first performed in Lithuania on 4 September 1636, at the court theatre of the grand duke in the Lower Castle in Vilnius.
From the second half of the 18th century to the early 19th century music and the arts, including opera and ballet, were taken under the patronage of influential noblemen from the stocks of Oginskis, Radvila, Tyzenhauzas, and others, who also held companies in their country mansions and city residencies.
In 1785 first public city theatres were opened in Vilnius and Klaipeda. From 1795 to the early 20th century Lithuania was under the domination of foreign powers - first, Poland and Germany, then Russia - which led to severe oppression of Lithuanian national culture. At that time Lithuanian theatres were run by Polish, German, Italian and Russian companies.
After the ban on Lithuanian press was lifted in 1904, the first Lithuanian opera Birute, co-authored by composer Mikas Petrauskas and playwright Gabrielius Lansbergis-Zemkalnis, was staged in Vilnius in 1906.

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