As every year, the traditional section of Užutrakis is "New with classics!". This time at the concert you will hear sparkling variations and fantasies created by Italian composers - virtuoso flutists on the themes of Italian operas and opera arias. Free-breathing, singing, rich in their beauty melodies, interwoven with virtuosic flute and piano passages, will ring in the Užutrakis palace hall on this special afternoon of the year.

Composers Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881), Pietro Morlacchi (1828-1868), Giuseppe Gariboldi (1833-1905) are virtuoso flutists, the primaries of the flute at Milan's La Scala Opera House, who were well versed in the traditions of Italian opera performance and conveyed this in opera transcriptions for flute and piano and another Italian flute virtuoso Theobald Boehm (1794-1881), who knew well the possibilities of playing this instrument and used them at the highest level, creating the most virtuosic fantasias of operas for flute and piano, which entered the gold fund of the flute repertoire. The concert will also feature works by Pablo Sarasatė (1844-1904) and Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848).

This program will be presented by the laureates of international competitions, the principal flute of the Panevėžys Musical Theater, a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (class of Prof. A. Vizgirdas) and the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon (France) (class of Prof. Ph. Bernold and J. Beaudiment). , conductor and pedagogue Justinas Mačys and pianist Mantautas Katinas - a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (prof. G. Ručytės-Landsbergienės class) and the London Royal Academy of Music (prof. Sulamita Aronovsky class).