Ausrine Stundyte

Stundyte’s 25/26 season begins with the Royal Ballet & Opera’s first ever production of The Makropulos Affair by Katie Mitchell, conducted by Jakub Hrusa. She then returns to the Wiener Staatsoper and Staatsoper Hamburg for one of her signature roles, Elektra which she later performs in concert at Dresden Philharmonie. Other engagements include Kundry Parsifal in Caracas and the world premiere of Reinvere’s Das Lied von den zwei Erden with the Bayerisches Rundfunkorchester and Matthias Pintscher.

Last season featured performances of Schoenberg’s Erwartung at the Salzburg Festival and Grand Théâtre de Genève; Stundyte’s role debut as Polina in Prokofiev’s The Gambler at Stuttgart Opera; Judith in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle at Philharmonie de Paris; and as Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova in Weinberg’s The Idiot at Salzburg Festival.

Other recent engagements include Schoenberg’s Erwartung with Eun Sun Kim and the Berliner Philharmoniker; Emilia Marty The Makropulos Affair (Opéra de Lyon); Calixto Bieito’s production of Orgia (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Arriaga); Judith Bluebeard’s Castle (Lithuanian National Opera, Salzburg Festival, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro La Fenice); Tosca (Royal Ballet & Opera); Elektra (Wiener Staatsoper, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Staatsoper Hamburg, Salzburg Festival); Kát’a Kabanová (Bergen National Opera); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Opéra national de Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève); The Fiery Angel (Teatro Real, Theater an der Wien, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Bayerische Staatsoper and Opernhaus Zürich); Tristan und Isolde (Opéra de Lyon); Die tote Stadt (Oper Köln); and Salome (Wiener Staatsoper, Dallas Symphony Orchestra).

Stundyte collaborates regularly with some of the most renowned directors and conductors including Calixto Bieito, Krzystof Warlikowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Sir Antonio Pappano, Franz Welser-Möst, Fabio Luisi and Eun Sun Kim.

In 2024, Pentatone released Zemlinksy’s Eine florentinische Tragödie which was recorded at Dutch National Opera and conducted by Marc Albrecht. The album was awarded the Opus Klassik Prize.