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Kostas Smoriginas

Bass-baritone

  • Smoriginas is utterly charismatic, physically and vocally.
    Tim Ashley, The Guardian
  • Kostas Smoriginas particularly splendid as Colline. His vibrant bass voice was consistently velvety and graceful.
    John E De Wald, Opera Britannia
  • Only the baritone Kostas Smoriginas (a last-minute stand-in for Gerald Finley) projected the text meaningfully (Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, with the LSO and Valery Gergiev)
    Andrew Clements, The Guardian
  • Kostas Smoriginas, blazingly confident in the Herald’s proclamations.
    Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph
  • Lithuanian bass baritone Kostas Smoriginas, a convincing singer, mastering perfectly Mozart’s discourse and conscious of cantabile.
    Emmanuel Andrieu, ConcertoNet

  • Kostas Smoriginas begins the 2012-13 season with his return to Salzburg Festival for the role of Escamillo in the revival of the Easter Festival’s Carmen with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Simon Rattle.  He travels to Moscow for revival performances in the role of Masetto in La Scala’s production of Don Giovanni and continues to Teatro Municipal, Santiago, Chile, to make his debut as the dastardly Don; he continues to Toulouse to sing the role there at Theatre du Capitole later in the season.  Returning to Vilnius, he makes his debut in the title role Eugene Onegin with Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra.

    Recent successes include his return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, covering Rene Pape as Méphistophélès Faust.  He debutted at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, as Masetto in their new production of Don Giovanni with a highly celebrated cast, and returned to the UK to sing Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with Ed Gardner and the CBSO.  He made his debut as Leporello Don Giovanni at Opera de Bordeaux, France, and appeared in the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme 10-year Anniversary concert as Don Alvaro Viaggio a Reims.

    Last season, Kostas made his US opera debut as Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro at Washington National Opera, a role he later repeated at San Francisco Opera. He returned to Great Britain to appear as Escamillo Carmen in Opera North’s new production, having made his debut in the role at Berlin’s Staatsoper. He appeared in Aix-en-Provence as Baron Duphol La Traviata under Louis Langree’s baton, and sang Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem in concert in Budapest. Other recent successes include his appearance at the Royal Opera House as Colline La Bohème, and with The Israeli Opera in the role of Tomsky Pique Dame. 

    Mr Smoriginas studied at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy from an early age.  After moving to London in 2005 and representing his country in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, he spent two years at the Royal College of Music, before joining the Jette Parker young artist programme at the Royal Opera House in 2007.

    At RCM, Mr Smoriginas appeared as Araspe Tolemeo and Seneca L’incoronazione di Poppea; as Dandini La Cenerentola and Pizzaro Fidelio with the National Latvian Symphony Orchestra.  Royal Opera House engagements while a Jette Parker young artist include his unexpected mainstage debut as Alidoro La Cenerentola, the Marquis d’Obigny La Traviata, Angelotti Tosca, Zuniga Carmen, Bello La Fanciulla del West, Smirnov The Bear, Schlemil Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Mandarin Turandot.

    Completely at ease on the concert platform, his repertoire includes the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart and Faure, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Janacek’s Gagolitic Mass, and much more, including standard Russian repertoire.  He won rave reviews for his BBC Proms debut in Stravinsky’s Les Noces under the baton of Ed Gardner at the Royal Albert Hall. 

    Kostas Smoriginas is represented worldwide by Deborah Sanders at Rayfield Allied.
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