Nomeda Vilkanauskaitė

Nomeda Vilkanauskaitė (soprano) was born in Panevėžys. She graduated Panevėžys Secondary school and the Music School. She graduated from Švedas Music School in 1986 where she studied choir conducting. In the same year she entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and studied solo singing. Nomeda graduated from the Academy in 1995 receiving a Master’s degree. She began her singer’s career while still in her years of studies.

She works as a singer in the Kaunas State Musical theatre since 1994. Two years later (in 1996) she started working as a solo singing teacher in the Music Academy.

In 1993 she won the first place in the Lithuanian vocal singing competition in Kaunas. Then in 1995 she won the Gran Prix in the International Vitolis Singer Competition.

During her career she has performed in various contests with the Lithuanian National Symphonic Orchestra, Latvian National Symphonic Orchestra and Kaunas State Musical Theatre Chamber Music Orchestra, she also prepared chamber music programs and sacred music programs with the Kaunas quartet. Nomeda’s successful participation in various festivals was a remarkable effort to raise the culture of music. For instance, participation in the festival Atžalynas, international Pažaislis festival, Griegas and Čiurlionis music festivals and New Music festival Closely (“Iš arti”) in Kaunas and Thomas Mann festival in Nida. In addition to this, Nomeda is constantly participating in the annual international music festival Operetta in Kaunas Castle.

Together with her colleagues she established the soprano trio named Panterų trio (Panther Trio) in 1999, created many different programs of different music genres and toured in Italy, Holland, Austria, Latvia and Denmark.

 

Roles in various performances (1993-2013):

Carlina in Don Giovanni by Mozart,

Adina in The Elixir of Love by Donizetti,

Franziska Cagliari in Viennese Blood by Strauss,

Miss Mabel Gibson in The Circus Princess by Kálmán,

Eliza in Paganini by Lehar,

Mimi in La Boheme by Puccini (in Opera and Ballet Theatre in Riga),

Viktoria in Victoria by Paul Abraham,

Maddalena de Coigny in Andrea Chenier by Giordano,

Flora in La Traviata by Verdi,

Liza in The Land of Smiles by Franz Lehar,

Silva in The Gypsy Princess by Kálmán,

Carlotta in Gasparone by Millöcker,

Annina in A Night in Venice by Strauss,

Angele in The Count of Luxembourg by Lehar,

Stefano in Romeo and Juliette by Gounod,

Investigator in Kipras, Fiodoras and Others by Kuprevičius,

Laura in The Beggar Student by Millöcker,

Maritza in The Countess Maritza by Kálmán,

Hana Glavari in The Merry Widow by Lehar,

Madame de Pompadour in Madame Pompadour by Fall,

Lara in Siegfried Werner Cabaret,

Cat in The Hat with Ears by Eduard Chagagortian,

Domna Ivanovna Saburova in The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,

Soprano performances:

Beethoven Symphony No 9,

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2,

Rossini, G.B.Pergolesi, A.Dvořak Stabat Mater,

Bruckner Te Deum,

Verdi Requiem,

Dubois The Seven Last Words of Christ,

Berlioz The Chilhood of Christ,

Schubert Messa G-dur,

Vivaldi Gloria.