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The Lithuanian bass, Egidijus Dauskurdis, studied singing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Vytautas Juozapaitis. He is the prize-winner of the Stasys Baras Singers' Competition (2002). In 2005 he also received the "Operos Švyturiai" Award as Opera Hope of the Year.
Egidijus Dauskurdis he made his debut at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (LNBOT) as the Priest in Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins in 2001. With the opera studio 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. 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. He toured the UK, sang the part of Leporello in "Don Giovanni" at the Nottingham Opera Theatre (LNOBT's Tour).
Egidijus Dauskurdis also performs chamber and large-scale symphonic works, including W.A. 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.
Repertoire includes: Figaro in W.A. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, King in S. Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges, Count Tiesenhaus in B. Dvarionas Dalia, The Elder, Surgeon in G. Verdi La forza del destino, Bass in J.S. Bach’s Johannes-Passion (BWV 245), Surin in P. Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Leporello in W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Samuel in G. Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, Sparafucile in G. Verdi’s Rigoletto, Daland in R. Wagner’s Der fliegende Hollander, Zuniga in Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Falstaff in O. Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor in G. Verdi’s La Traviata, Bonza in G. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Sarastro in W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Varlaam in M. Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Smirnov in William Walton’s The Bear, Jew & Nazarene in R.Strauss’ Salome, Dulcamara in G.Donizetti’s L'elisir d'amore, Hunding in R. Wagner’s The Valkyrie, Lodoviko in G. Verdi’s Otello, Martin, Bear Keeper, Inquisitor, Doctor, Judge & Tsar Ivan in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, Gremin in P. Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Frank in J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, etc. |
