Engagements for the 2025/26 season include Giorgio Germont in La Traviata with the Bergen National Opera, Jochanaan in Salome for the New Israeli Opera, Heerrufer des Königs in Lohengrin with the Hungarian State Opera and a return to the Bregenzer Festspiele. His concert plans include Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestra (Edward Gardner), Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra at Vienna’s Musikverein and De Doelen (Lahav Shani), and Rachmaninov’s The Bells with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Nicholas Collon).
Last season, Smoriginas debuted for the Bayerische Staatsoper as Heerrufer des Königs, and sang Jochanaan in Salome at the houses of Hannover, Antwerp, Malmö and Zurich. On the concert platform, he sang Rachmaninov’s The Bells with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Edward Gardner), Verdi's Requiem with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Eva Ollikainen) and made a return to the BBC Proms with Shostakovich’s Symphony No.13 (Ryan Bancroft).
Previous opera engagements include: Heerrufer des Königs, Donner in Das Rheingold and Tchelakov in Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde for the Cologne Opera and in Valencia; title role of Eugene Onegin for the Opéra de Lausanne; Escamillo in Carmen at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg Easter Festival, Royal Opera House, Santa Fe Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Beijing’s National Centre for Performing Arts, Oper Köln, Norwegian Opera and with the Berlin Philharmonic (recorded for EMI Classics with conductor Sir Simon Rattle); Monterone in Rigoletto and Escamillo for the Bregenz Festival; Scarpia in Tosca with Opéra de Rouen; Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with the Semperoper Dresden; Escamillo, Tomsky in Pique Dame, Eugene Onegin and Figaro for the Lithuanian National Opera; Count in Le nozze di Figaro in Malmo; and the title roles of Aleko and The Demon at La Monnaie. Elsewhere, he has performed with the Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Municipal Santiago, Opera de Bordeaux, Vilnius City Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival and Teatro alla Scala Milan.
On the concert platform, Smoriginas’s engagements have included Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Edward Gardner) and London Symphony Orchestra (Valery Gergiev), Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the BBC Proms, Dvorak’s Te Deum with the Orchestre de Paris, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Rachmaninov’s The Bells with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Andris Nelsons), Aleko with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Verdi’s Requiem with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and an Eastern European tour with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karel Mark Chichon. He also performed concerts of Salome at the Bergen International Festival (Edward Gardner), Tristan und Isolde with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Andris Nelsons) at Carnegie Hall and Elektra with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Sir Antonio Pappano). He recorded the role of Pietro in Simon Boccanegra alongside Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ildar Abdrazakov and Barbara Frittoli.
Smoriginas studied at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy before representing Lithuania at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He graduated from the Royal College of Music and was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House.
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