The Lithuanian soprano Ausrine Stundyte made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2020 as Elektra under Franz Welser-Möst, returning in 2021 in the same role and in 2022 as Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle). She has appeared as Elektra at the Vienna and Hamburg State Operas and in concert under Antonio Pappano.
Future engagements will include Silvana in a new production of Respighi’s La fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Marietta (Die tote Stadt) at the Bergen National Opera and Dyer’s Wife (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
Her recent engagements have included the title role of Kát’a Kabanová in Bergen; Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District) in Geneva, Paris, Lyon and Antwerp; Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Woman (Erwartung) and Jeanne in Penderecki’s Die Teufel von Loudun at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich; Renata (The Fiery Angel) in Madrid, at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in Warsaw, Zurich, Munich and Lyon; Regan in a new production of Reimann’s Lear in Munich; the recording of a new production of The Fiery Angel at the Theater an der Wien; a new production of Die tote Stadt for the Cologne Opera; Judith at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Komische Oper Berlin; the title role of Salome at the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, in Bologna and in Dallas; the title role of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna in Baltimore and at the Vienna Konzerthaus; Heliane in Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane at the Bard SummerScape Festival, in Ghent and Antwerp; Andrea in José María Usandizaga’s Basque folk opera Mendi Mendiyan in Bilbao and San Sebastián; Tosca in Helsinki, Seattle and São Paulo; Carlotta in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten at the Komische Oper Berlin; Bianca in Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie in Amsterdam; the title role of Catalani’s Loreley at the St Gallen Festival; Venus (Tannhäuser) in Venice and Antwerp; Montezuma in Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexiko in Cologne and in Madrid; Leonore (Fidelio) at the Vienna Volksoper, under Zubin Mehta in Florence and in concert in Israel; Margherita in Boito’s Mefistofele in Munich; Chrysothemis (Elektra) in Antwerp; the title role of La Gioconda in St Gallen; and Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and in Seattle.
Ausrine Stundyte studied in her home city of Vilnius and in Leipzig and began her career with appearances at the Leipzig Opera and as an ensemble member of the Cologne Opera. Along with conductors already mentioned, she has worked with Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Dmitri Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Julia Jones, Kazushi Ono, Julian Kovatchev, Marco Armiliato, Markus Stenz and Gabriel Feltz, among others. She has performed in many productions by Calixto Bieto and has also worked with Robert Carsen, Peter Konwitschny, Graham Vick, David Alden, Christof Nel, Pierre Audi, Tatjana Gürbaca and Dmitri Tcherniakov.
As a concert singer she has appeared at venues including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, the Cologne and Essen Philharmonies and at several concert halls in Tokyo.
