a unique performance-festival will take place, which has no analogues in the theater genre, because it combines such an incredible number of colors, fantasies and different styles that cannot fit into any known creative frames!
"Divine Michelangelo" - this is the name of this miracle of fusion of drama, opera, artistic, poetic mastery - a delicate, sincere, sensual and poetic work created by the wonderful theater director and actor Alexander Rubinov!
The hero of the new work is the great genius sent to us by the Most High - Michelangelo Buonarroti!
His life, complex love relationships, unlike the usual ones, his soulful poetry and, of course, unique creativity became the basis of this unique spiritual celebration, brought to life by a team of amazing artistic people, endowed with versatile creative talent:
The charming actress Daiva Škelevaite took on a very dynamic role, Benjamin Britten's vocal cycle "7 Sonnets of Michelangelo" - a piece rarely performed due to the special complexity of the vocal technique - the opera tenor Mindaugas Zimkus perfectly copes with it, accompanying him and also performing other compositions, excellent pianist Paulė Gudinaitė! The stage action is enriched by inventive video projections that effectively depict Genius's work, his paintings and sculpture masterpieces!
Of course, many thanks to the creator of the soul and eyes of this unique spiritual feast, the poet Violeta Shoblinskaya, who perfectly translated a dozen sincere sonnets of the messenger of the Great Heaven to mankind - Michelangelo - from the old Italian language!
Hurry up, only 100 lucky people - that's how many people can fit in the hall of the Kaunas Artists' House. Become a witness of an unforgettable cultural event!
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a divine Italian sculptor, artist, architect, poet and thinker. One of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance and early Baroque, he is considered the true "father of Baroque" in architecture.
His works were considered the highest achievements of Renaissance art even during the lifetime of the master himself. Michelangelo lived for almost 89 years, an entire era, from the High Renaissance to the beginnings of the Counter-Reformation. Thirteen popes were replaced during this period, nine of which he commissioned. Many documents about his life and work have been preserved - testimonies of contemporaries, Michelangelo's own letters, contracts, his personal and professional records. Michelangelo was also the first Western European artist whose biography was published during his lifetime.
Among his most famous sculptures are the statues of David, Bacchus, Pieta, Moses, Leah and Rachel for the tomb of Pope Julius II.
