Event description
Together with the festival's friends - Pažaislis Music Festival - we invite you to a concert performance of Massenet's opera Teresa with the best Lithuanian soloists Justina Gringyte, Edgars Montvidas and others, the LNOBT Symphony Orchestra and the Male Choir, with Maestro Ričards Šumilas at the conductor's chair. This opera, with its intriguing plot and wonderful music, will be performed in Lithuania for the first time. Therese is one of Massenet's last operas and one of the operas that led his contemporaries to call the composer "the poet of the female soul". Although it was not one of Massenet's most popular operas, its beautiful music and the vocal parts, which demanded great skill from the performers, did not make this work forgettable. The opera is set during the French Revolution. Therese, the wife of the revolutionary Girondist André, conceals from her husband an affair with his friend, the royalist Marquis Armand. Armand wants to flee the country to avoid the wrath of the revolutionaries, and André himself takes care of this by giving him temporary shelter in his home. Unfortunately, after the guillotining of King Louis XVI, the Girondists fell into disfavour with the Revolution. In the wake of the riots, André joins the other Girondists, leaving Therese and Armand at home. Teresa persuades Armand to flee, promising to join him later. When she sees André arrested through the window, she shouts "Long live the King!" to the crowd. The furious crowd bursts into the house and arrests Therese. She finds herself next to her husband, who is being led away on a scaffold.