Opera repertoire
Bartók
Title role Bluebeard's Castle
Bellini
Riccardo I puritani
Bizet
Escamillo Carmen
Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles
Debussy
Golaud Pelleas et Melisande
Donizetti
Malatesta Don Pasquale
Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor
Leoncavallo
Tonio Pagliacci
Massenet
Albert Werther
Mozart
Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte
Title role Don Giovanni
Figaro / Il Conte Le nozze di Figaro
Mussorgsky
Shchelkalov Boris Godunov
Puccini
Scarpia Tosca
Sharpless Madama Butterfly
Lescaut Manon Lescaut
Rachmaninov
Title role Aleko
Rubinstein
Title role The Demon
R. Strauss
Oreste Elektra
Jochanaan Salome
Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila High Priest
Tchaikovsky
Title role Eugene Onegin
Tomsky Pique Dame
Verdi
Rodrigo / Posa Don Carlo
Ford Falstaff
Renato Un ballo in maschera
Paolo Simon Boccanegra
Wagner
Herrufer Lohengrin
Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde
Wotan The Ring Cycle*
*In preparation
Concert repertoire
Beethoven
Symphony No.9
Dvořák
Te Deum
Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death
Rachmaninov
The Bells
Shostakovich
Symphony No.13
Stravinsky
Les noces
Szymanowski
Stabat Mater
Verdi
Requiem
Opera TodaySmoriginas swaggered into Lillas Pastia's café as the reigning bullfighter and sang his 'Toreador Song' with resonant, robust sounds. He seemed to be having fun with the role and the part fit him perfectly.
New Orleans AdvocateAs Figaro, bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas sang with power and clarity, at his best when venting righteous anger on learning of Almaviva's designs on Susanna the night before her scheduled marriage to Figaro.
Forum OperaThe real revelation of the evening is the young Lithuanian bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas... The voice is splendid, powerful and rich in a great variety of colours. But Smoriginas is also a fine musician who manages to give a lot of humanity to his character, and to make him almost sympathetic despite his dark designs.