Vytautas Juozapaitis

Vytautas Juozapaitis (born 14 December 1963 in

He has been a soloist at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre since 1990 and at the Kaunas State Musical Theatre since 1989. He also collaborates with Klaipėda State Musical Theatre and appears in other subsidiary projects.

In 1992 and 1993, he studied at the European Center for Opera and Voice (ECOV) in Belgium, then with Marlena Malas in

In addition to working as a performer, Juozapaitis has been teaching vocal performance since 1996 at his alma mater, now the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and also at the Vilnius College from 2006. Among his graduate students are some prominent Lithuanian opera singers like tenor Edmundas Seilius and baritone Dainius Stumbras. In 2009, Juozapaitis opened his personal educational centre of culture and art called the Vytauto Juozapaičio kultūros ir meno centras.

He continues to perform in Lithuania and abroad; he has toured in Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, India,

Lithuanian composers has written some roles specifically for V. Juozapaitis: Count Shemeta – in Broniaus Kutavičiaus opera Lokys, King Mindaugas – in Broniaus Kutavičiaus opera Ugnis ir tikėjimas, Žilvinas – in Audronė Žigaitytė opera Žilvinas ir Eglė and Žygimantas Augustas – in Giedrius Kuprevičius opera Karalienė Bona.

V. Juozapaitis' repertoire includes almost 50 major baritone roles in operas, operettas and musicals. Most famous of them:

• Don Giovanni – in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera Don Giovanni
• Rigoletto – in Giuseppe Verdi opera Rigoletto
• Figaro – in Gioachino Rossini opera The Barber of Seville
• Escamilllo – in Georges Bizet opera Carmen
• Germont, Barone Douphol – in
  La Traviata
• Don Carlos, Marquis of Posa – in Giuseppe Verdi opera Don Carlos
• Prince Ypsheim – in Johann Strauss operetta Wiener Blut
• Sharpless – in Giacomo Puccini opera Madama Butterfly
• Enrico – in Gaetano Donizetti opera Lucia di Lammermoor
• Scarpia – in Giacomo Puccini opera Tosca
• Gianni Schicchi – in Giacomo Puccini opera Gianni Schicchi
• Amonasro – in Giuseppe Verdi opera Aida
• Valentino – in Charles Gounod opera Faust
• Prince Yeletsky – in Pyotr Tchaikovsky opera The Queen of Spades
• Wolfram – in Richard Wagner opera Tannhäuser
• Guglielmo – in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera Così fan tutte
• Renato – in Giuseppe Verdi opera Un ballo in maschera
• Ping – in Giacomo Puccini opera Turandot
• Don Carlo – in Giuseppe Verdi opera La forza del destino
• Pilot – in Rachel Portman opera The Little Prince
• Paganini – in Franz Lehár operetta Paganini
• Freddie – in Frederick Loewe musical My Fair Lady
• Homonay – in Johann Strauss operetta The Gypsy Baron
• Don Alvaro – in Gioachino Rossini opera Il viaggio a Reims
• Duke Guido – in Johann Strauss operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig
• Plunkett – in Friedrich von Flotow opera Martha
• Delaura – in
  Peter Eötvös opera Love and Other Demons
• Frollo – in
  Notre Dame de Paris
• Gérard – in Umberto Giordano opera Andrea Chénier
• Arnoldo – in Amilcare Ponchielli opera I Lituani
• Pontius Pilate – in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar
• Count Almaviva – in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera The Marriage of Figaro

V. Juozapaitis also has sung in many oratories including

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Discography

• 2004 – Negaliu Nemylėti (I Can't Help Falling In Love)
• 2005 – Baritonas (Baritone)
• 2008 – Neprarask Vilties (Don't Lose Hope)

References

Wikiquote has quotations related to Vytautas Juozapaitis.

1. ^ http://www.musicperformers.lt Vytautas Juozapaitis biography
2. ^ "Uostamiesčio muzikiniame teatre – koncertinis "Rigoleto" atlikimas" (in Lithuanian). alfa. 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
3. ^ http://www.eb.lt Vytautas Juozapaitis (baritone)
4. ^ "Operos solistui televizija – tik smagus pakvailiojimas" (in Lithuanian). alfa. 2007-05-24. Retrieved 2010-01-27. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Vytauto Juozapaičio edukacinis kultūros ir meno centras – The official website

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