Virgilijus Noreika
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Virgilijus Kęstutis Noreika (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 22 September 1935 – 3 March 2018)[1] was a Lithuanian tenor.[2]
Early life and education
Noreika was born in Šiauliai and graduated with honors from the Lithuanian State Conservatory in 1958. A year earlier, while still a student, he was engaged as a performer at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Career
In 1959, Noreika sang the part of Alfredo Germont in Verdi's La traviata, one of Noreika's favorite and most frequently performed roles. Later in 1965, he continued his career at the La Scala in Milan. There he mastered six new roles, and also sang the part of Pinkerton from Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Noreika's creative biography comprises more than 40 operatic roles: Cavaradossi from Tosca by Puccini, Faust from Faust by Gounod, Rudolfo from La bohème by Puccini, Otello from Otello by Verdi, to name a few. Noreika has performed in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre, in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón, in Paris at the Opéra National de Paris, and many other famous opera houses.
Noreika has sung in more than 30 foreign theaters, participated in more than 1000 performances, given approximately 600 solo concerts, recorded 20 phonographic records and CDs.
Recognition and legacy
In 1997, he celebrated his 40th anniversary as an operatic tenor, and received the Kipras Award from the Opera Fellow Society. Noreika, semi-retired, was a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
In 2011, Noreika was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts for "the highest vocal excellence and unfading talent".[3] In 2015 he was awarded Medal of Pushkin in Russia.[4]
To honor his achievements, the first International Virgilijus Noreika Competition for Singers was organised in 2017.[5] The competition will take place every four years around the birth date of Noreika.
References
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See also
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- 1935 births
- 2018 deaths
- Musicians from Šiauliai
- Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Academic staff of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni
- Members of the Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Knights First Class of the Order of the Polar Star
- Officer's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
- Recipients of the Medal of Pushkin
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 2nd Class
- Operatic tenors
- Lithuanian music educators
- Lithuanian opera singers
- Lithuanian tenors
- Soviet male opera singers
- Soviet music educators
- Soviet tenors
- Burials at Antakalnis Cemetery
- Italian-language singers of Lithuania
- French-language singers of Lithuania