VIKTORIJA KAMINSKAITE - Soprano

Viktorija Kaminskaite is a Lithuanian soprano who has established herself in opera as well as on concert stages throughout the world. Last season she made several debuts ( Madama Butterfly, Agathe, Tatjana, Sieglinde, Gutrune) with great success and extended the range of her repertoire from Baroque to great Wagnerian roles. In the current season she debuted at the Opera Festival in Daegu, South Korea with Wagner's Ring conducted by A. Soddy and Nationaltheater Mannheim.

Kaminskaite's concert repertoire includes works from Bach to the present. Most recently, she sang with the Tonkünstler Orchestra as part of the New Year's Concerts in Vienna.

Viktorija Kaminskaite won a scholarship to the Komische Oper Berlin in 2005 and subsequently sang "Zerlina" in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" under the musical direction of Kirill Petrenko.

Viktorija Kaminskaite gewann 2005 ein Stipendium an der Komischen Oper Berlin und sang dort in Folge die „Zerlina“ in Mozarts "Don Giovanni" unter der musikalischen Leitung von Kirill Petrenko.

In 2006 she won 1st prize at the Albert Lortzing Competition in Leipzig.

In 2008 she became a permanent ensemble member at the Leipzig Opera House and during this time sang many leading roles in her field with great success. Later, as a freelance singer, she remained closely connected to the Leipzig Opera through constant guest appearances. She was able to work there with numerous, renowned conductors and directors, which had a very positive influence on her further development and from which, among other things, a later intensive collaboration on numerous productions with the director Peter Konwitschny resulted. In 2013 followed an invitation to the Bayreuth Festival to sing the role of Dorella in Wagner's comic opera "Das Liebesverbot" with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Constantin Trinks.

Many renowned opera houses have already engaged her, such as Komische Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Staatstheater Kassel, Oper Halle, Theater Bonn, Vilnius City Opera, Opera de Lyon, Gran Teatro Nacional Perú in Lima, Metropolitan Opera and Muza Symphony Hall in Tokyo and many others.

Viktorija Kaminskaite in her career has had opportunities to perform with renowned conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, Fabio Luisi, Jonathan Nott, Jun Märkl, Gabriel Feltz, Ulf Schirmer, Michael Sanderling, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Alexander Soddy, Alfred Eschwé, R.Rizzi Brignoli, Michael Balke, Michael Wendeberg, Mattias Foremny and many others.

The CD - recordings with Viktorija Kaminskaite of Wolf-Ferrari's "Le donne curiose" under Ulf Schirmer with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and of Eugen d'Albert's "Seejungfräulein" with the MDR - Symphonieorchester under Jun Märkl on Naxos have met with enthusiastic response from the press.

In September 2018, Viktorija Kaminskaite received a vocal professorship at the International University in Chengdu, China.

Current & upcomming Engagements
2026 in spring: Debut as Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer at Theater Chemnitz
2025 in autumn: Debut as Elsa in Lohengrin at Hannover State Opera
2025 short-term debut as Giulietta in Hoffmann´s Erzählungen (Theater Chemnitz)
2024 Acclaimed premiere as Sieglinde die Walküre (Staatstheater Saarbrücken)
2024 Successful debut as Katarina Izmailova in Schostakowitschs Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (Theater Hagen)
* Award: Nomination as "Best Singer of the Year" for her interpretation of Katarina Izmailova by the magazine " Opernwelt"

Concert & Oratorio
2025 Verdi Requiem at the Philharmonie Luxemburg.
2025 Messe petit solennelle von G. Rossini, Gewandhaus, Leipzig
2024 Wagner Wesendonck -Lieder, Le scene Musical, Paris, France.
2023 J.S. Bach Weihnachtsoratorium ( Leipzig), Dvorak Stabat Mater ( Merseburg)
2023 Gustav-Mahler-Festival Debut at Gewandhaus zu Leipzig with "Die drei Pintos" (Weber/Mahler), Gewandhausorchester under Dmitri Jurowski.
2023 Neujahrskonzerte in Vienna: with the Tonkünstler-Orchester, among others at the Vienna Wiener Musikverein.