Curriculum Vitae
Stundyte Ausrine
Soprano
Ausrine Stundyte was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. She studied at the Lithuanian Music Academy with Prof. Irena Milkeviciute before in 2000 she undertook further study at the Hochschule for Musik and Theatre in Leipzig with Prof. Helga Forner. She has won several prizes and scholarships, including the prize of the Chambre Profesionnelle des Directeurs d'Opera and 2nd prize operetta in 25th International Belvedere Singing Competition.
Already as a student, Ausrine Stundyte was engaged by the Leipzig Opera to sing smaller roles. In 2009, she was asked to sing there the part of Mimi in Peter Konwitschny’s classical production of La Bohème. Since the season 2003/4 and for the next 5 years she is engaged by the Cologne Opera where she sings amongst others the roles of Nedda in Pagliacci, Mimi in La Bohème, Cho-Cho-San in Madama Butterfly.
Ever since, she sings in various theatres amongst others, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Manon in Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier to excellent reviews. During season 2010/2011 she will sing Katja in Katja Kabanova and Margherita/Elena in Mefistofele (Boito).
Ausrine Stundyte has sung at Arena di Verona in Italy, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Portugal, Aalto Theater Essen, Nationaltheater Weimar, Oper Leipzig, in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, National Opera of Lithuania and the Philharmonic concert halls of Cologne and Essen. Her wide ranging concert and lieder repertoire includes song cycles by Strauss, Berg and Wagner. Ausrine Stundyte has recorded songs by Hermann Heyer for the MDR Radio in Germany.
Repertoire
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Bizet
Cilea
Janáček
Janáček
Giordano
Korngold
Künneke
Leoncavallo
Martinu
Puccini
Puccini
Puccini
Puccini
Schostakowitsch
Tschaikowski
Tschaikowski
Verdi
Verdi
Verdi
Verdi
Wagner
Weber
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Carmen
Adriana Lecouvreur
Katja Kabanova
Jenufa
Andrea Chénier
Die tote Stadt
Lady Hamilton
Pagliacci
Ariadne
Bohème
Madama Butterfly
Manon Lescaut
Tosca
Lady Macbeth von Mzensk
Eugen Onegin
Pique Dame
Don Carlos
Un ballo in maschera
Othello
Il Trovatore
Die Götterdämmerung
Freischütz
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Micaela
Adriana
Katja
Jenufa
Maddalena
Marietta
Amy Lyons
Nedda
Ariadne
Mimi
Cio-Cio-San
Manon Lescaut
Tosca
Katerina
Tatjana
Lisa
Elisabeth
Amelia
Desdemona
Leonore
Gutrune
Agathe
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