2025
On 27 June, 7 pm, at the Arts Incubator of Raudondvaris Manor – Pažaislis Music Festival together with Kaunas State Philharmonic invites you to a concert dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the legendary composer Johann Strauss!
Artists:
KAUNAS CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Principal Conductor Constantine Orbelian (USA), Director Algimantas Treikauskas
Soloists:
JULIA NOVIKOVA (soprano, Germany)
DMYTRO POPOV (tenor, Ukraine-Germany)
Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS
Johann Strauss is a composer whose music has been delighting audiences for two hundred years, making hearts beat to the rhythm of the waltz and transporting them to the enchanting atmosphere of the Viennese festivals. The writer Alexander Dumas called him “the God who rules the passions”, a description that is born out by the enduring popularity of his work. The composer wrote more than 400 works, including 168 waltzes, 117 polkas, 73 quadrilles, 43 marches, scores for operettas and ballets. J. Strauss, the younger, is said to have done for dance music what George Gershwin did for jazz – raising it to the highest heights of symphonic music.
The Kaunas State Philharmonic, together with the Pažaislis Music Festival, invites you to a concert dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of this legendary composer. The programme will feature Strauss’s most popular works for orchestra, arias and duets from operas and operettas, which will fill the evening with the spirit of Vienna.
Robertas Šervenikas will conduct the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, creating a special interpretation of the music, involving both musicians and audience. The soloists of the concert are world-renowned performers. Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, who has sung on the most famous stages in Europe and at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York, and his wife, the talented soprano Yulia Novikova, who has been acclaimed on the European and South American opera stages. She is particularly famous for her role as Gilda in the television film of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, in which Placido Domingo and Ruggero Raimondi sang together and the legendary Zubin Mehta conducted the orchestra.
Let this evening be a wonderful celebration of music for all!
Don’t miss this evening – it’s not just music, it’s a travel back in time to the Viennese ballroom where Strauss’ timeless waltzes were performed.
TICKETS: here
Concert organiser:
KĮ „Kauno valstybinė filharmonija“
+370 372 00478 / info@kaunofilharmonija.lt
