Pažaislis Music Festival together with Kaunas State Philharmonic invites you to a concert dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of legendary composer Johann Strauss!
Johann Strauss is a composer whose music has been delighting audiences for two hundred years, making hearts beat to the rhythm of the waltz and transporting them to the enchanting atmosphere of the Viennese festivals. The writer Alexander Dumas called him “the God who rules the passions”, a description that is borne out by the enduring popularity of his work. The composer wrote more than 400 works, including 168 waltzes, 117 polkas, 73 quadrilles, 43 marches, scores for operettas and ballets. Strauss the Younger is said to have done for dance music what George Gershwin did for jazz, elevating it to the highest heights of symphonic music.

Robertas Šervenikas will conduct the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, creating a special interpretation of the music, involving both musicians and audience. The soloists of the concert are world-renowned performers. Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, who has sung on the most famous stages in Europe and at New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Opera Theatre, and his wife, the talented soprano Julia Novikova, who has won acclaim on the European and South American opera stages. She is particularly famous for her role as Gilda in the television film of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, in which Placido Domingo and Ruggero Raimondi sang together and the legendary Zubin Mehta conducted the orchestra.
The programme will feature popular orchestral works by Strauss and other composers, as well as arias and duets from operas and operettas, filling the evening with the spirit of Vienna.

The concert is organised in cooperation with the Kaunas State Philharmonic and Kaunas District Municipality