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Kostas Smoriginas Name: Kostas Smoriginas

Country: Lithuania

Voice: Bass baritone

Date of birth: 02.08.1980

Place of birth: Vilnius, Lithuania

Studied at: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Kostas Smoriginas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and studied at the vocal department of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with Professor Vladimiras Prudnikovas.

His most recent roles have included Pizzaro Fidelio, Dandini La Cenerentola and Tomsky The Queen of Spades in Riga, and Melitone La forza del destino in Vilnius. Future engagements include Masetto Don Giovanni in Norway.

He has won several competitions for young singers in Vilnius, Lithuania, and won second prize in the Jazep Vitol Competition in Riga, Latvia.

Kostas enjoys the new technologies, as well as fishing, reading and theatre.

(Profile last updated June 2005)

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Joana depuis Barcelone
Vous avez une belle voix, je crois que vous ferez une belle carrière. Continuez à etudier. Laissez Wagner por plus tard. Mozart et beaucoup Mozart,on aprend tellement avec ce genie!

Dan from London
Fabulous to read these comments - my choir (London Oriana) has just booked Kostas to sing the bass solo in Messiah this Easter - what a great prospect!

Philip in NYC
This was the most solid vocal material in the entire Competition. He sounds like a more basso-timbred Hvorostovsky. Really enjoyed his performance!

Beate - Vilnius
Did not hear this, but a friend in Scotland said he is wonderful. His teacher in Vilnius is now the Culture Minister....

Yehuda Shapiro from London
I've only seen the video clip, but -- on first impressions -- the classiest voice of the competition. Just what a bass-baritone should sound like ... But can the prize go to two baritones in a row?

Howard Phillips Swansea
Lovely voice , just the kind of dark baritone i like . Hope to hear a lot more of him in UK if at all possible

CM Derby
What a Wagner voice in the making! I do hope that he does more with his voice than just that though, as it is capable of so much when he fully tames it.

Almos Kovacs from Bournemouth
Another male singer who should have been included in the finals - really there is a fundamental flaw in this competition, which is biased in favour of female singers ( I ma NOT a mysoginist!) The songs selected and their performance by this young man are memorable, exquisitely delivered in every sense of the word.

Claude in London
What a seductive voice!! And so young. Well done. But I thought a couple of the portamentos in the Mozart were vulgar but MY WORD what a voice! And quite sexily done too!

Baiba-Riga.
Nadejus sto Ti toze imejes uspehi v konkurse. Derzis ja za Tebja toze baleju.

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Lithuanian flag Kostas Smoriginas is the second Lithuanian to reach the last 25 in Cardiff.



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