In the first troupe, in addition to several theater actors who came from Warsaw with W. Bogusławskis, former actors and singers of the noble theaters of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania also played, and the orchestra was made up of musicians from the Vilnius Cathedral and former noblemen's bands. The repertoire included Molière's Skapen Frauds (reworked), P.‑A. de Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro (1786), due to the influence of the characters of the Age of Enlightenment - many Italian opera buffa and French comic operas (N. Piccini, G. Paisiello, D. Cimarosos, E. R. Duni). 1816 W. Bogusławskis toured in Vilnius. During various periods of the Vilnius City Theatre's existence, it was managed by D. Morawskis, Vilnius actress M. Morawska, M. Każyńskis, W. C. A. von Schmidkoff, Vilnius native J. Surewiczius, H. Abramowiczius, K. Szlagiers, A. Voronkovs, A. Kartavos, K. Nezlobins , V. Nikulinas and others. Vilnius actors J. Rogowskis, J. Szymkajło, I. Górska, M. Morawska, K. Skibińskis, D. Każyńskis, B. Gregorowicz, J. Surewiczius, singers B. Pocewicz-Meyer, M. Michailov, J. Vinogradov worked in the theater , conductors of the theater orchestra W. Każyńskis, violinist W. (V.) Ebannas from Kedai, choristers born in Vilnius or the province of Lithuania, musicians of the orchestra. Scenography was created by A. Smuglevičius, J. H. Głowackis, J. Rustemas, A. V. Žametas and others. 19th century at the beginning, the repertoire consisted of works by F. Schiller, G. E. Lessing, W. Shakespeare, W. A. Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. The troupe of the Vilnius City Theater toured in Saint Petersburg (1806), Gardin, Kaunas, Riga, Liepaja. Theatrical and musical life in Vilnius was activated by doctor and art patron J. Frankas and his wife, singer, student of F. J. Haydn, Chr. Gerhardi. In 1810, J. Frank and Duke M. K. Oginskis created a project for the Lithuanian National Theater, but it remained unrealized. 19th century In the 20s and 30s, the development of romanticism in Lithuania was marked by the constructions of A. Fredro, K. Th. Dramas by Körner, F. Grillparzer, operas by G. A. Rossini, C. M. von Weber. In 1820–21, 1823(?), 1824, a troupe of German artists from Klaipėda led by J.H. Heckert performed in the Vilnius City Theater: W.A. Mozart's Tito's Mercy, Belmont and Constantia, G. Rossini's Tancred, H. Cun's tragedies and plastic and mime performances were shown. Due to the influence of the Romantics, there was an increase in Lithuanian-themed works in the theater (Vilnius F. Żyliński's melodrama Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, J. Franul von Weissenthurn's melodrama Lithuanian loyalty and courage, adapted by K. Nowiński). The works shown on the stage of the Vilnius City Theater of this period had connections with the work of A. Mickevičius. From 1835 to 1844, the German singer W. C. A. von Schmidkoff worked in the Vilnius City Theater (since 1837 the manager), he united German actors and Vilnius troupes. The repertoire of this period consisted of operas (V. Bellini's Norma, C. M. von Weber's Free Shooter) and dramas (A. Dumas' father, V. Hugo). The theater toured the surrounding cities, starting in 1845 every year in Kaunas. In 1838-39, actor B. Dawison, who later became famous, worked in the theater in Europe and the United States. While living in Vilnius in 1836 and 1839–58, the Polish composer S. Moniuszko composed for the theater (opera Halka, one-act operas, music for drama performances), he also worked as a theater orchestra conductor. 19th century In the 1960s, the Vilnius City Theater performed W. Shakespeare's Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, A. Dumas' father Henrik III and his estate, Tereza, G. Sand Klaudija, E. Scribe's Adrienne Lecouvreur, A. de Musset No promises needed ( Green gloves, translated by J. Korzeniowskis), all 6 works written for the theater by the poet V. Sirokomlė who lived in Vilnius, operas by G. Donizetti, G. Verdi, F. von Flotow. Since 1864, when the Russian language was established in the Vilnius City Theater, the artist of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters P. Vasiliev and his wife, the artist of the Alexandra Theater M. Vasiliev, acted in it. The repertoire consisted of plays by A. Ostrovsky, N. Gogol, I. Turgenev. Under the guidance of A. Voronkov, excerpts from F. Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment (1885) adapted for the theater were shown. 1887–91 S. Brykinas, A. Liarovas, I. Alinskis, S. Tamarova, M. Lubkovskaya and others sang in A. Kartavov's opera troupe. The orchestra was conducted by V. Sukas. Staged G. Bizet's Carmen and the Pearl Fishers, G. Verdi's Troubadour, Traviata, Aida, Othello, G. Rossini's Barber of Seville, Ch. Gounod's Faust, G. Meyerbeer's Huguenots, A. Ponchielli's Gioconda, P. Tchaikovsky's Mazepa, A. Rubinstein's Maccabees and other operas. The actors of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Imperial Theaters M. Dalskis, M. Sablina-Dolskaja, A. Melnikova-Samoilova, G. Galickis, V. Nikulinas, A. Agariovas, who played in the drama troupe, and others created expressive roles of classical dramaturgy and writers of that time (E. A. Scribe, A. Dumas father, A. Južin, M. Tchaikovsky). The productions of M. Lermontov's Masquerade and A. Chekhov's Ivanov plays were significant. In 1894–1900, under the leadership of K. Nezlobin, the troupe featured M. Strelskis, K. Bravičius, V. Neronovas, N. Tiraspolskaja, P. Samoilova, V. Komissarzhevskaja (1894–96). The repertoire consisted of Russian (A. Tolstoy's trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible,Tsar Fyodor and Tsar Boris, The Idiot, based on F. Dostoyevsky, adapted for the stage by V. Krylov, A. Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Seagull, many plays by A. Ostrovsky) and Western European (Molière, W. Shakespeare, H. Sudermann) , H. Ibsen, É. Zola, Lope de Vega, G. Hauptmann) writers' works. 20th century plays by A. Chekhov (Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) were performed at the beginning. After the ban on the Lithuanian language was lifted, Lithuanians also acted on the stage of the Vilnius City Theater - amateur actors, some of whom later became creators of the Lithuanian national professional theater. In 1914, the theater ceased operations.
