Justina Gringyte

Award-winning Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte has received high praise for her “knockout technique” (The Times) and “thunderously powerful voice” (Daily Telegraph). Awarded Young Singer of the Year at the International Opera Awards, and a graduate of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden – where among other things she performed at the Olympic Committee’s Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games alongside Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and Plácido Domingo, and at a special concert to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II – Justina is considered one of the foremost rising stars of the opera world. An acclaimed Carmen, her hugely-praised performance with English National Opera was screened live into cinemas.

She has performed at many of the world’s leading opera companies, including Opéra national de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Royal Ballet and Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Bolshoi Opera, Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Korean National Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Vilnius City Opera, Israeli Opera and Latvian National Opera. Her many leading roles have included Amneris (Aida), Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Meg Page (Falstaff), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Tigrana (Edgar), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Bizet’s Carmen, Dalila (Samson et Dalila), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Massenet’s Therese, Dulcinée (Don Quichotte) and Hansel (Hansel und Gretel).

Equally in demand on the concert platform, she has collaborated with major orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra della Svizzeria Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Simón Bolívar Orchestra, Basque National Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Philharmonic – and has given song recitals in celebrated venues such as Wigmore Hall. She has collaborated with conductors including Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Tugan Sokhiev, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Ludovic Morlot, Susanna Malkki, Evelino Pidò, Kazushi Ono, Robert Treviño, Daniele Rustioni, Carlo Rizzi, Xian Zhang, Sesto Quatrini, Andrea Battistoni, Giacomo Sagripanti, and Edward Gardner.

For Deutsche Grammophon she recorded Raminta Šerkšnyte’s Songs of Sunset and Dawn (Gramophone Award-nominated). She has recorded Rachmaninov songs and Medtner songs, both albums with pianist Ian Burnside for Delphian; the Rachmaninov was also Gramophone Awardnominated. Bizet Songs for Ondine is her first solo album.