As of the 2008/09 season Viktorija Kaminskaite is member of the Oper Leipzig, where she recently celebrated a huge success as Donna Fiorilla (Turco in Italia). In the present season she will furthermore debut as Ninetta (Love for three Oranges), Ismene (Alkestis) and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni). Last season, her roles in Leipzig included Pamina (Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sacerdotessa (Aida), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Flower Maiden (Parsifal). In the upcoming season she will among other things give Fiordiligi-debut in Cosi fan tutte.

Viktorija Kaminskaite gained first experiences on the opera-stage in student-productions of Britten’s Turn of the Screw and in the title-role of Händel’s Alcina as well as in the role of a Flower Maiden at Oper Leipzig. In the season 2006/07 she was engaged as a member of Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, where she worked under the direction of Johannes Felsenstein and appeared in roles such as Pamina, Xenia (Boris Godunov), Philine (Mignon) and Mascha (Zarewitsch).

In concert, Viktorija Kaminskaite could be heard with Bach’s Christmas oratorio, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass and Exsultate Jubilate and Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem. In a TV-broadcasted concert-version of Ranzato’s Paese dei Campanelli she sang under the baton of Fabio Luisi. Together with the MDR Sinfonieorchester and Luisi she could be heard in Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Elijah, a piece which she later sang together with Bo Skohvus at the Münchner Philharmonie. With the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker under the baton of Gabriel Feltz she appeared in Beethoven’s Symphony N°9, Weber’s Oberon (Rezia) and Mahler’s Symphony N°2.

Viktorija Kaminskaite was born in Vilnius. After a degree in choir conducting, she studied opera-singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig under Helga Forner and Regina Werner-Dietrich. Currently, the soprano works together with Peter Berne. She attended Master-Classes of Daphne Evangelatos, Carlos Montané, Grace Bumbry, Edith Wiens and Simon Estes. In 2006, Viktorija Kaminskaite won the Lortzing-Competition in Leipzig.

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