The Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre is holding a charity concert. All proceeds will go to support political prisoners in Belarus and their families. More than 400 prisoners of Lukashenko's regime have the status of political prisoners in Belarus, the total number of criminal cases brought for political reasons exceeds 3000.
All these people need your support. We will be grateful for any amount of donation.
The concert will be attended by leading theater artists, opera soloists Eugenijus Hrebtovas, Joana Gedmintaitė, Mindaugas Jankauskas, Ludas Mikalauskas, Viktorija Miskunaite, Tomas Pavilionis, Regina Šilinskaite, Jovita Vaskevičiūtė and the Belarusian opera soloist Margarita Levčuk.
Ballet dancer Olesya Shaitanova will perform the choreographic miniature The Dying Swan.
The accompaniment will be provided by the pianist-concertmaster Justas Čeponis and a quartet of musicians of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
The concert will take place at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre on May 30 at 18:00. The concert will be live streamed online on the theater's Facebook page and on the theater's YouTube channel.
Concert partners:
- Svetlana Tihanovskaya's Office
- BYSOL Solidarity Foundation
- Belarus Foundation for Cultural Solidarity
- Country for Life Foundation
The theater complies with the requirement for the number of theater visitors and the mandatory sanitary distance requirements, so a “passport of opportunity” is not required for theater visitors. But asks that you remember to wear a face mask.