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Kipras Ma\u0161anauskas
\n1972
\nIn memoriam Romas Kalanta<\/p>\n

Rock Opera in 2 Acts
\nFabula Goda Simonaityt\u0117
\nLyrics Arnas Ali\u0161auskas
\nOrchestrations \u2013 Jievaras Jasinskis<\/p>\n

Music Director and Conductor Jonas Janulevi\u010dius
\nDirector K\u0119stutis Stasys Jak\u0161tas
\nAsistant director Viktorija Strei\u010da
\nSet Designer Gintaras Makarevi\u010dius
\nCostumes and Make-up Designer Julija Skuratova
\nChoreographer Stefanija Nosovait\u0117
\nLight Designer Audrius Jankauskas
\nChorus master Rasa Vaitkevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117
\nConductor’s assistant Mantas Jan\u010diauskas<\/p>\n

Opening night on May 14, 2022
\nRunning time 2.30 hours (including interval)<\/p>\n

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May 14, 1972, in front of the Kaunas State Musical Theatre 19-year-old Romas Kalanta in protest against the Soviet regime pouring petroleum set himself on fire and cried-out \u201cFreedom for Lithuania!\u201d. In 2022, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this event, Kaunas State Musical Theatre presents world premiere of a new stage work \u2013 the rock opera \u201c1972\u201d about the events of so-called Kaunas Spring.
\nThe victim of silent, perhaps even a bit depressed hero, exploring the environment, absorbing the mood of that time, encouraged others to rebel against the Soviet government in peaceful protests. In the first lines of such protests were standing young people, later scrupulously numbered in photos taken by the KGB. Most of these young people were not even twenty years old. Some of them were arrested and ten of them were prosecuted. These people belonged to the informal youth of 1970’s Kaunas, who expressed their opposition to the oppression of the Soviet regime. There were many hippies\u2019 culture signs in their activities and hobbies \u2013 long hair, colourful clothes and accessories, loud radios on their shoulders and a love to alternative rock.
\nThey often found themselves on the margins of society, being criticized, experiencing psychological or physical law enforcement violence, without access to education, working unskilled jobs. It was integrated into their identity \u2013 uneducated, but sophisticated, not musicians, but lovers to play, not poets, but lovers to write \u2013 a way to be if not against the system, then at least beyond it. Not perfect enough, but bright and bold enough, led by an idealism and a desire for an unrestricted life, they have become the ones, who not only talk, but also act.
\nAnd they are the axis of this play. The personality of Romas Kalanta stays here more as a symbolic figure.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>

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Rock opera \u201e1972\u201c is an artistic expression of that time, fulfilled with the spirit of protest and youthful energy, as well as a unique musical experiment that combines documentary and fiction in the sound of modern interpretated psychedelic rock classics.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n ****<\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/blockquote>

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Martyno Aleksos nuotraukos<\/h3>\n \n
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Goda Simonaityt\u0117<\/h3>\n \n
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