Exactly 50 years ago, on the rainy day of April 7, 1973, Elena Čiudakova (1925-1973) left us - one of the brightest Lithuanian opera stars of all time... E. Čiudakova died in the prime of her creative life, not even reaching her forty-eighth birthday, undermined by an insidious oncological disease . The whole of Vilnius buried her, the whole of Lithuania mourned her... In the minds of the audience, the soloist was so inseparable from the heroine who had been sung the most (Violeta Valeri G. Verdi's opera "Traviata") that people began to call her simply "Our Violet". Such an inscription also appeared on her grave in the Antakalnis cemetery in Vilnius, after a bronze bas-relief depicting the soloist in the role of Violeta was stolen. But she was also Rozina, and Lakme, Gilda, Manon, Musette, Adina, Marfa, Olympia... A huge gallery of memorable roles. In 2025, we will celebrate the centenary of Čiudakova... But will we? There are fewer and fewer people who are able and willing to kindle the altar of memory... We find less and less time to stop at a lonely grave, concentrate, look, listen and... hear...

The birth of the idea of the performance-impression was inspired by the article "Our Violet - Elena Čiudakova" by soloist Giedrė Kaukaitė, which appeared in "Literatūra ir mene" back in 2015, commemorating E. Čiudakova's ninetieth birthday. Based on the monograph "Elena Čiudakova" by Jūratė Viliūtė and the book "My sister Elena Čiudakova" by Inesa Makovskaja.