Biography

Lithuanian bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2007–09, singing roles including Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Marquis d’Obigny (La traviata), Angelotti (Tosca), Bello (La fanciulla del West) and Schlemil (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). He has since returned to sing Colline (La bohème), Don Alvaro (Il viaggio a Reims in the Jette Parker Young Artists Tenth Anniversary Concert), Escamillo (Carmen) and Andrei Shichelkalov (Boris Godunov) for The Royal Opera. In the 2017/18 Season he returns to sing Escamillo and Herald (Lohengrin).
Smoriginas studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and represented Lithuania in the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He moved to London in 2005 to study at the Royal College of Music on a full scholarship, and on graduation joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. Engagements since leaving the Programme include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera, Escamillo for Opera North, in Beijing, Dresden and at the Salzburg Festival, Don Giovanni in Santiago and Toulouse, Leporello (Don Giovanni) at La Scala, Milan, and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Leporello in Bordeaux, Tomsky (The Queen of Spades) in Israel and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Eugene Onegin in Vilnius.
Smoriginas frequently appears in concert, engagements including Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner and at the Barbican under Valery Gergiev, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem in Budapest.
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Kostas Smoriginas as Andrey Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov

Christine Goerke as Ortrud, Thomas J. Mayer as Friedrich von Telramund, Georg Zeppenfeld as King Heinrich, Jennifer Davis as Elsa von Brabant, Kostas Smoriginas as Herald in Lohengrin, The Royal Opera

Kostas Smoriginas as Herald in Lohengrin, The Royal Opera

Kostas Smoriginas

Gabriele Viviani as Marcello, Kostas Smoriginas as Colline, Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo and Jacques Imbrailo as Schaunard in La Bohème

Jennifer Davis as Elsa von Brabant, Kostas Smoriginas as Herald in Lohengrin, The Royal Opera

Kostas Smoriginas and Andrew Tortise in Boris Godunov

Kostas Smoriginas as Andrey Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov

Kostas Smoriginas in Carmen, The Royal Opera

Anush Hovhannisyan as Frasquita, Kostas Smoriginas as Escamillo and Rachel Kelly as Mercedes in Carmen

Kostas Smoriginas as Colline, Gabriele Viviani as Marcello, Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo and Jacques Imbrailo as Schaunard in La Bohème

Gabriele Viviani as Marcello, Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo, Hibla Gerzmava as Mimì, Jacques Imbrailo as Schaunard and Kostas Smoriginas as Colline in La Bohème
