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Origin
  
Darbenai, Lithuania

Instruments
  
Vocals, piano

Name
  
Mindaugas Rojus

Occupation(s)
  
Vocalist, opera singer

Years active
  
2006–present

Role
  
Singer

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Born
  
January 24, 1981 (age 43) (
1981-01-24
)

Associated acts
  
Zemaitijos perlaiLoreta Rameliene

Genres
  
Opera, Operetta, Musical theatre, Classical music

Similar People
  
Eduardas Kaniava, Vytautas Juozapaitis, Jeronimas Milius, Virgilijus Noreika, Zigmars Liepins

Mindaugas Rojus - "Įsimylėjęs kareivis"


Mindaugas Rojus (born January 24, 1981 in Darbenai, Kretinga district, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian opera singer (tenor / baritone), a soloist of Klaipeda State Music Theatre, and a member of a stage duo Zemaitijos perlai (Samogitia's Pearls).

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Mindaugas Rojus "Sevilijos kirpėjas"


Biography

Graduated high school of Darbenai. In Klaipeda, Stasys Simkus Conservatory he studied choral conducting (class of A. Purliene) and solo singing (class of V. Balsyte). In 2001 and 2002, attended the Lithuanian Academy of Music preparatory studies (class of prof. Vladimiras Prudnikovas). Since 2004, he studied at Klaipeda University's Faculty of Arts Singing Department (class of M. Gylys, prof. Eduardas Kaniava), gained a master's degree.

He has two siblings – a younger sister, Sandra, and an older brother, Rimantas. With Klaipeda State Music Theatre ballerina Viktorija Gulnickaja has a son Augustinas Rojus (born June 9, 2010). Currently lives in a Lithuania's seaport town Klaipeda.

Roles

In 2006, he won the audition for the role of Eugene Onegin and straight after that was invited to work in Klaipeda State Music Theatre. Notable roles:

  • Onegin – in Pyotr Tchaikovsky opera Eugene Onegin
  • Germont – in Giuseppe Verdi opera La traviata
  • Aristide – in Paul Abraham operetta Ball im Savoy
  • Prince Ypsheim – in Johann Strauss operetta Wiener Blut
  • Jake – in musical drama Passion Spree by George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess
  • Pelleas – in opera readings Pelleas and Melisande by Claude Debussy music and Maurice Maeterlinck play
  • Eisenstein – in Johann Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus
  • Boy – in Audrone Zigaityte opera–phantasmagoria Frank'Einstein: The 21st Century
  • Phoebus – in Zigmars Liepins' opera–melodrama Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo novel
  • Fiorello – in Gioachino Rossini opera The Barber of Seville
  • Juozelis – in Giedrius Kuprevicius musical Veronica
  • Radish – in Antanas Kucinskas opera Potato's Tale
  • Brother – in Vidmantas Bartulis opera Morning Star
  • Pjeras – in Jurgis Gaizauskas opera Pinocchio
  • Herstwood – in Raimond Pauls musical Sister Carrie
  • Rohnsdorff – in Imre Kalman operetta Die Csardasfurstin
  • Perchik – in Jerry Bock musical Fiddler on the Roof
  • Dido – in Henry Purcell opera Dido and Aeneas
  • Gianni Schicchi – in Giacomo Puccini opera Gianni Schicchi

    • Baritone parts in other works:

  • In Gabriel Faure choral–orchestral setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead Requiem for baritone, soprano and chorus
  • In Carl Orff scenic cantata Carmina Burana for tenor, baritone, soprano and chorus

    • Other projects

    In 2009, he participated LTV and LTV World opera singers contest Triumfo arka (Triumphal Arch) where he was one of the viewers' biggest favorites, reached semifinal. Performed Mister X aria "Zwei Marchenaugen" from Imre Kalman operetta The Circus Princess, Xerxes aria "Ombra mai fu" from Georg Friedrich Handel opera Serse, Don Quixote aria "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" from Mitch Leigh musical Man of La Mancha, Germont's aria "Di Provenza il mar" from Giuseppe Verdi opera La traviata, Yeletsky's aria "I love you beyond measure" from Pyotr Tchaikovsky opera The Queen of Spades, and others.

    Collaborates with his colleague from Klaipeda State Music Theatre, soprano Loreta Rameliene as a stage duo Zemaitijos perlai (Samogitia's Pearls). Its repertoire includes well known classical music pieces and pop songs. Also cooperates with the Kretinga School of Art ensemble Lyra, with whom he released an album.

    Performed in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Italy, Germany, participated in music competitions (Jurmala festival, the International Belvedere Competition of soloists etc.

    Awards

    The winner of Vox Rotary, a Republican contest of young vocalists, and the recipient of J. Augaityte Prize, as well as the graduate of international Imre Kalman Competition (2008, Moscow), where he also won a special prize for the best interpretation of Johann Strauss' piece.

    In 2009, for the role of Prince Ypsheim in Johann Strauss operetta Wiener Blut he was nominated for The Golden Cross of the Stage.

    Discography

  • 2004 – Kartu (with Lyra).
  • 2009 – Giedrius Kuprevicius. Musical Veronica, Klaipeda State Music Theatre.
  • Triumfo arka. Auksiniai balsai II (CD / DVD, released in 2010) includes his performings of Hussar's song from Imre Kalman operetta The Circus Princess and a Neapolitan song O Surdato 'Nnamurato by Aniello Califano and Enrico Cannio.
  • In 2011, M. Rojus recorded an official anthem of Sventoji – Sventas krantas (Sventosios himnas) (lyrics by known Lithuanian writer and poetess Vidmante Jasukaityte).

    • References

    Mindaugas Rojus Wikipedia
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