2025, February 27 at 7:00 pm., St. Catherine’s Church (Vilnius St. 30, Vilnius)
Katerina Estrada Tretyakova is one of the most prominent and artistic lyric sopranos on the world opera stages today. She completed her first vocal studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, in the class of Prof. Giedrė Kaukaitė. Later, she improved her skills at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and the Hamburg State Opera Studio, working in the troupe of this theatre.
In 2012, she was awarded the Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize established by the Hamburg Opera Foundation. In 2013, the soloist won the Francisco Vinas Competition in Barcelona and won first place at the international Grand Prix de l’Opera competition in Bucharest. Her collection of awards also includes second place at the Montserrat Caballe Competition in Zaragoza and first place at the Marcello Giordani Competition in Catania.
The Vilnius City Municipality St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor – Modestas Barkauskas, honorary conductor – Donatas Katkus) is a collective widely known for its universality, professionalism, and artistic imagination. The orchestra is an eagerly awaited guest not just in prestigious concert halls in Lithuania and abroad, such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Harpa in Reikjavik, the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, or the Royal Palace in Warsaw, St Petersburg’s M. Glinka Hall, but also in less predictable places like outdoor stages or even sand quarries.
Performers:
Katerina Estrada Tretyakova (soprano);
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Barkauskas).
Program:
The most popular arias, temperamental Spanish music.
