Opera director Gediminas Šeduikis (b. 1983) has been accompanied by classical music since childhood. Born in a family of musicians and educators, he started learning to play the piano at the art school of his native Utena. Later, he continued his piano studies at the Juoz Tallat-Kelpša Conservatory in Vilnius with Marija Radvilaitė. However, he did not link his future with this specialty, choosing to study theatrology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (2003–2007), and then completing his master's studies in art management (2018–2020).Already during his studies, he acquired practical national work skills, acting as a miman of the Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT). Since 2006 he deepens his knowledge of opera directing and learns the subtleties of the craft, working in this and other theaters as an assistant to opera and theater directors from various countries, among whom we can mention David Alden, Eimuntas Nekrošiaus, Robert Wilson, Jonas Juraš, Mariusz Trelińskis, Silviu Purcărete, Oskars Koršu Bernardas. , Chen Shi-Zheng, Vasilij Barchatov, Andreja Žagar, Vincent Boussard. in 2018 Head of the LNOBT Directing Service and Chief Designated Assistant Director.Another important stage of G. Šeduikis' creative activity is related to his work at the Vilnius City Opera (VCO) and collaboration with the director Dalia Ibelhauptaite. 2007-2018 with the so-called "Bohemian" troupe, and since 2011 and with the newly established theater "Vilnius City Opera" worked as a co-director and assistant director in the production of operas and musicals, including W.A. Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and "All of them are the same", J. Massenet's "Verter", S. Sondheim's "Svynis" "Tod - the demon barber", "Katia Kabanova" by L. Janáček, "Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky, "Manon Lesko" by G. Puccini, "The Troubadour" by G. Verdi. The theater also independently directed the opera and rock genre synthesizing project "VCO Rock" (2013) and E. Humperdinck's opera "Jonas ir Greta" (2014), for which together with the conductor Ričardus Šumila, he won the Golden Stage Cross Young Artist Award. in 2018 At the invitation of the artistic director and chief conductor of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Gintaras Rinkevičius, he directed the rock opera "Eglė" by Laimis Vilkončius, which premiered on the occasion of the opening of the Lithuanian centenary song festival "Vardan tos..." in Vilnius Vingis Park.Meanwhile, the director's authorial debut took place in 2008. At the Tytuvėnai Festival, where he directed G. F. Händel's opera "Acis and Galatea" at the summer invitation of the conductor and artistic director of the festival, Robert Šerveniks. in 2011 In the Kaunas State Music Theater, under the direction of D. Ibelhauptaitė, he staged G. Donizetti's most famous bel canto opera "Lucija di Lamermur", for which he won the Fortune Award. The following year, he dived into the frenzy of J. Strauss's operettas, staging "The Gypsy Baron" in Kaunas and "The Bat" at LNOBT.It is also important to mention the cooperation of G. Šeduikis with the Klaipėda State Music Theater, where he performed for the centenary of the restoration of the state in 2018. staged Giedrius Kuprevičius's opera "Prūsai", and two years later Richard Wagner's opera "Skrajojantis alandas" was staged for the first time in this theater, which according to the idea of director Dalius Abaris, took place in an unconventional space for an opera - in the old life of Klaipėda by the Curonian Lagoon. The action of his latest building - G. B. Pergolesi's opera "Tarnaitė pania" - in the project "Traveling Opera!" is also taking place in an unconventional space (a freight truck). Opera on a truck" (2020).
