Kostas Smoriginas sings don Giovanni’s aria ‘Fin ch’han dal vino calda la testa’ скачать в хорошем качестве

Kostas Smoriginas sings don Giovanni’s aria ‘Fin ch’han dal vino calda la testa’

After studying singing in Lithuania, in V. Prudnikovas’ class, bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas (b. 1980, in a family of actors) moved to London in 2005 and spent two years at the Royal College of Music. He made his debut as Escamillo in Carmen at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin. Later he recorded the role with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Simon Rattle for EMI Classics and since then he performed it at the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Santa Fe Music Festival, the Dresden Semperoper and at Covent Garden. Later Smoriginas appeared in that and also other roles at Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and La Monnaie, Brussels, among many others. According to the Bachtrack classical music database, Smoriginas was the third most often performing bass-baritones in the world in 2014. Recent successes include the title role in Don Giovanni at Opera de Lausanne as well as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro in Dresden, Escamillo in Kasper Holten’s new production of Carmen at the Bregenz Festival, the title roles in Eugene Onegin and Le nozze di Figaro for Lithuanian National Opera, High Priest of Dagon in Samson and Delilah at Vilnius City Opera and also Count in Le nozze di Figaro in Malmo, title roles in Aleko and The Demon at La Monnaie and Tchelakov in the new production of Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden among others. Smoriginas is also in high demand on the concert platform. His repertoire includes Verdi, Brahms, Mozart and Faure’s Requiems, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9, Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, Dvorak’s Te Deum and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, which he sang with Edward Gardner and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. In 2017, in the Prague Spring Festival he performed Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 13 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. This video comes from http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/10... (cond. G. Rinkevičius) dated 2017.