Algirdas Janutas

Tenor (Lithuania)
Represented in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).

Born 10 February 1961, Halle, Germany

Studied at the Glinka Conservatoire, Minsk, Belarus with Slava Polozov (currently with the Metropolitan Opera, New York).

Continued at the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Professor Virgilius Noreika (formerly with La Scala, Milan, and Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow).

Concert performances

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia Orchestra: Beethoven Symphony No.9, Händel MESSIAH

Iceland Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Ödipus Rex

The Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra of Prague: Mozart REQUIEM

Orquesta Filarmónica del Colón: Mendelssohn ELIJAH

English Symphony Orchestra: Mozart CORONATION MASS, GREAT MASS in C minor

L'Orchestre National de Lille: J S Bach MESSE H-moll

Orqesta de Valencia: Mozart GREAT MASS in C Minor

Royal Scottish National Orchestra: Handel MESSIAH

Orchestre de Chambre d Auvergne: Beethoven C-major Massop.86

Royal Scottish Chamber Orchestra, St.Petersburg Camerata: Handel MESSIAH

Eesti National Simphony Orchestra: Brahms RINALDO;R.Tobias DES JONA SENDUNG,

Latvian National Orchestra: Cesar Franck LES BÈATITUDES, Berlioz: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST F.Schubert: Winterreise,Edward Elgar: THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND,

Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra: Dvorak STABAT MATER, REQUIEM, Britten WAR REQUIEM, Mahler DAS LIED VON DER ERDE, Verdi REQUIEM, Shostakovich FROM JEWISH POETRY;Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Gounod MessaSolennele, Liszt Faust-Sinfonie,Alexander Krein op.33 KADDISCH,Rachmaninov THE BELLS

Lithuanian National Orchestra: Beethoven CHRISTUS AM ÖLBERGE, Bruckner TE DEUM Philharmonie de Lorraine-Liszt: Psaume 13 Bruch op.45 DAS LIED VON DER GLOCKE,Schuman Requiem, Schubert Stabat Mater,Rossini Stabat Mater

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra: Schönberg GURRELIEDER

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra: J S Bach WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM,Magnificat

HORTUS MUSICUS ACADEMIC ORCHESTRA: MATTHÄUSPASSION, Cantata No. 21, Mendelssohn PAUL, Psalm115,Handel Dixit Dominus, J.HAIDN Die Schopfung, Stabat Mater; Mozart Missa Brevis,Regina Coeli,Litanie de venerabiliÄaltaris sacramento

Chor des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks: Richard Strauss: Deutsche Motette, Op. 62

All Nations Orchestra:Orff CARMINA BURANA, Beethoven SYMPHONY No. 9

Latvian National Orchestra: Cesar Franck LES BÈATITUDES ,

Berlioz: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST

F.Schubert: Winterreise ,

Edward Elgar: THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND,

Latvijas Chamber orchestra: JS BACH Oster-oratorium, Lutherische Messe ,

Chamber orchestra “Collegium Musicum”: J.S.Bach Markuspassion,Johannespassion, G ROSSINI MESSA DI RAVENA, V.BELLINI MASS, Handel Nisi Dominus, J.BRAHMS Neue 'Liebeslieder, Drei Quartette op.31,Rossini Les Soirees musicales,

State choir LATVIJA: Edward Elgar THE GREAM OF GERONTIUS op.38, Claudio Monteverdi VESPERAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS. J.S.Bach-Cantata No 189

Stage appearances

Lithuanian National Opera: Cavaradosi (Tosca), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Ermanno (La dama di picche), Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera), Belmonte(Der entführung aus dem Serail), Polione (Norma), Conte (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Edoardo (La cambiale di matrimonio), Basilio, Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro), Acis (Acis and Galatea), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), The Simpleton ,Wrong Dimitry (Boris Godunov), Walther (Tannhäuser);

Malmö Opera (Sweden): Rudolfo (La Boheme),

Latvian National Opera: Lensky, Alfredo,The Simpleton, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte)

Staatsoper Augsburg: Faust (Faust),

Muzikinis teatras Klaipeda: Edipus Rex (Edipus), Paolo(Francesca da Rimini),

Colon Buenos Aires: Elijah, Messiah ,

Teatr Wielki Warsawa: Alfredo

Major recordings

Beethoven SYMPHONY No. 9, Sinfonia Varsovia, Yehudi Menuhin

Handel MESSIAH, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin

Haydn Die Schopfung ,Staatschor Kaunas , Litauisches Kammerorchester, Yehudi Menuhin

Schubert Mass in A flat major, Mass in C major, Yehudi Menuhin

Mozart REQUIEM (Video Film), Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Stavros Xarhakos

Juozas Gruodis SOLO SONGS with Grazina Rucyte- Landsbergiene

Benjamin Britten SERENADE FOR TENOR , HORN & STRINGS op.31Hans Pizka(horn)

Verdi Requiem - Lithuanian National Opera

L. Balciunas Lithuanian National Symhony Orchestra, Terje Mikkelsen

V.Bartulis Requiem, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra , Robertas Servenikas

C. Sasnauskas Requiem Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, State Choir VILNIUS, J.Kalcas

Händel Arias, Chamber music ensemle MUSICA HUMANA

Besides the above, Algirdas Janutas has sung in many other concerts and festivals, such as Schleswig- Holstein, Gstaadt-Saane, Mozartfest (Bath), Bergen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Christmas in Albert Hall, The new and Old Ways to India with Santa Cecilia Academy with J.TEMIRKANOV,

Other conductors

T.VASARY, J.KASPSZYK, D. STERN, S.FIPS, P. CSABA, C. DIEDERICH, S. SONDECKIS, J. ALEKSA, J. DOMARKAS, M. PLASSON, J. FRANTZ, Y. MENUHIN, M. ROSTROPOVICH, A. OSTROWSKY, W. BOUGHTON, R. DEAN, T. MIKKELSEN, G. RINKEVICIUS, A. VOLMER, R. CANETTI, M. Winkler, A. MUSTONEN, Alain Paris