EGIDIJUS DAUSKURDIS

BIOGRAPHY

Having studied singing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Vytautas Juozapaitis, he made his debut at the LNOBT as the Priest in Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” in 2001. With the opera sudio of the Lithuanian Academy of Music he sang Figaro in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” and the King in Prokofiev’s “Love for Three Oranges”. He joined the LNOBT as a principal soloist in 2003. Along with regular appearances at the LNOBT, his engagements included Falstaff in Otto Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and Sparafucile in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at the Klaipėda Music Theatre.

He is the prizewinner of the Stasys Baras Singers’ Competition (2002). in 2005 he also received the “Operos Švyturiai” Award as Opera Hope of the Year.

Egidijus Dauskurdis also performs chamber and large-scale symphonic works, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Joseph Haydn’s St. Nicholas Mass, Franz Schubert’s Mass in C major, Stanislaw Moniuszko’s Litanies II and III from Litanie Ostrobramskie, etc. His record credits include a CD of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem released in Šiauliai.

In 2004, he participated in Opera Island summer academy in Kristiansand (Norway), where he sang Dr. Grenvil in Verdi’s “La Traviata” under direction of Jonathan Miller and conductor Marc Soustrot.

Egidijus Dauskurdis toured the UK, sang the part of Leporello in “Don Giovanni” at the Nottingham Opera Theatre (LNOBT’s Tour).

Repertoire includes:
Figaro (W. A. Mozart  “Le nozze di Figaro“)
King (S. Prokofyev “Love for Three Oranges“)
Count Tiesenhaus (B. Dvarionas “Dalia“)
The Elder, Surgeon (G. Verdi “La forza del destino“)
Bass (J. S. Bach “Johannespassion“)
Surin (P.Čaikovskij “Queen of Spades“)
Leporello (W. A. Mozart |Don Giovanni“)
Samuel (G. Verdi  “Un ballo in maschera“)
Sparafucile (G. Verdi  “Rigoletto“)
Daland (R. Wagner “Der fliegende Hollander“)
Zuniga (G. Bizet “Carmen“)
Falstaff (O. Nicolai “The Merry Wives of Windsor“)
Doctor (G. Verdi “La Traviata“)
Bonza (G. Puccini “Madama Butterfly“)
Sarastro (W. A. Mozart “The Magic Flute“)
Varlaam (M. Mussorgsky “Boris Godunov“)
Smirnov (W. Walton “The Bear“)
Jew, Nazarene (R.Strauss “Salome“)
Dulcamara (G.Donizetti “L’elisir d’amore“)
Hunding (R.Wagner “The Valkyrie“)
Lodoviko (G. Verdi “Otello“)
Martin, Bear Keeper, Inquisitor, Doctor, Judge, Tsar Ivan (L. Bernstein “Candide”),
Gremin (P. Tchaikovsky „Eugene Onegin”)
Frank (J. Strauss „Die Fledermaus”) etc.