Giedrė Šlekytė

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Giedrė Šlekytė
Born1989 (age 34–35)
Vilnius, Lithuania
Education
Occupation
  • Conductor
AwardsMalko Competition

Giedrė Šlekytė (born 1989

Dialogues des Carmélites at the Oper Frankfurt
in 2021.

Life and career

Šlekytė was born in Vilnius,

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Johannes Schlaefli, sponsored by the Erasmus Programme. She took master classes with Riccardo Muti, Bernard Haitink, Colin Metters and Mario Venzago.[2][3]

In 2013, she was awarded second prize at the Solon Michaelides conducting competition in Cyprus. She was nominated, along Lorenzo Viotti and Jiri Rozen, for the Young Conductor Award of the Salzburg Festival in 2015,[4] and received a prize of the Malko Competition.[2]

Conducting

Šlekytė was Erste

Das Land des Lächelns, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Verdi's La traviata and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.[5] She conducted a performance of Opera for Children – Die Zauberflöte, a stage adaptation for children of Mozart's work, at the 2018 Salzburg Festival.[6]

She led both the

Oper Leipzig, Die Zauberflöte at the Theater Basel, and Pascal Dusapin's Perelà, uomo di fumo at the Staatstheater Mainz.[8][2]

She also led the

Dialogues des Carmélites.[10] Due to restrictions in the COVID-19 pandemic, the orchestra had to be reduced to a chamber version, and the women's choir was positioned on the third tier.[10] The conductor said in an interview that she was a fan of stage director Claus Guth's work already before their project together.[11]

Awards

Recordings

References

  1. ^ a b c d ""Das Frauenthema nervt"". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). 8 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Giedre Šlekyte" (in German). DSO. March 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Giedre Slekyte" (in German). Tonkünstler-Orchester. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Lorenzo Viotti gewann in Salzburg Young Conductors Award". Kleine Zeitung (in German). 10 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Giedre Šlekytė verlässt das Klagenfurter Stadttheater". Kleine Zeitung (in German). 19 January 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Oper für Kinder – Die Zauberflöte". Salzburg Festival. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Dirigentin Giedre Šlekyte debütiert bei der" (in German). Staatskapelle Dresden. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Giedre Slekyte" (in German). Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Bruckner Orchester Linz: Šlekytė wird Erste Gastdirigentin". musik-heute.de (in German). 19 March 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  10. ^ a b Sternburg, Judith von (5 July 2021). ""Dialogues des Carmelites" an der Oper Frankfurt: Das Ende der Angst". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  11. ^ Sternburg, Judith von (2 July 2021). "Dirigentin Giedre Slekyte: Debüt an der Frankfurter Oper". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Opera Awards: 2018" (in German). Opera Awards. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Šerkšnytė – Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla". Deutsche Grammophon. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  14. Zeit Online
    (in German). Retrieved 13 July 2021.

External links

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