FULL The Picture of Dorian Gray Vilnius 2024 Rock Raibis, Uršulė Masanauskaitė, Bernard Butkus, Tautvydas Kairys

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray aka Doriano Grėjaus portretas  
• Composer: Emilė Riškevičiūtė, Rapolas Venckus, Rokas Raibis, Dovydas Levickis, Uršulė Mašanauskaitė, Leticija Mažulytė  
• Libretto: Gustas Perskaudas, Emilė Riškevičiūtė based on Oscar Wilde    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts I NMKČMM, Vilnius, Lithuania  
• Recorded: aPRIL 24, 2024
• Type: Staged Opera Live

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Act I
00:00 Prologue (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
1:19 Scene I: “Now He’s My Art” | 3:37 Basil’s love aria (Emilė Riškevičiūtė, Dovydas Levickis)
8:06 Scene II: “The world is only yours for a while” | 10:14 Henry’s recitative (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
15:40 Scene III: “You will not die of modesty” (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
20:44 Scene IV: “I love and I’m not trying to get to know her” | 21:41 Dorian’s story (Rokas Raibis, Leticija Mažulytė)
25:23 Scene V: “And what do you know about love?” | 28:19 Family trio (Rapolas Venckus, Uršulė Mašanauskaitė)
30:29 Scene VI: “After playing for the orchestra that prefers silence…” | 32:10 Performance (Rapolas Venckus)
34:08 Scene VII: “You took and left with the oblivious night” | 38:03 Sibyl’s death aria (Rokas Raibis, Dovydas Levickis, Rapolas Venckus, Uršulė Mašanauskaitė)

Act II
41:58 Scene I: “You can’t run away from yourself!” (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
44:23 Scene II: “I’ll quietly pretend it doesn’t hurt” | 47:42 Basil’s aria of pain | 50:16 The death of Basil (Rapolas Venckus, Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
53:30 Scene III: “We sleep, we sleep through the night” (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
58:26 Scene IV: “Smoke will not hide sins” (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
1:03:18 Scene V: “The blame falls on you!” (Dovydas Levickis)
1:06:29 Scene VI: “Falling attracts me more” (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
1:11:28 Scene VII: “Just don’t say it’s too late” | 1:14:20 Dorian’s aria | 1:16:46 Final (Emilė Riškevičiūtė, Rapolas Venckus)
1:19:03 Epilogue (Emilė Riškevičiūtė)
1:20:28 Applause

Plot:
Act I
Garden. Lord Henry visits his artist friend Basil, who, inspired by feelings, has painted a portrait of a charming young man, Dorian Grey. After meeting Lord Henry, who fosters a hedonistic worldview, Dorian wishes to stay young forever and begins a new life – he begins to search for undiscovered sensations. In a poor theater, he meets and seems to fall in love with a young actress, Sybil, but in reality Dorian is only fascinated by her acting. After a failed performance, they are left alone backstage: Sibyl finally feels happy because she understands the uncertainty of the theater and the stage, and Dorian, enraged, asks to be excused for his poor acting. Rejected and despised, Sibyl cannot endure it and commits suicide. With Dorian’s first sin, his portrait changes for the first time. The fateful wish is fulfilled – Dorian will remain young forever, and the portrait will carry the burden of his shame.

Act II
The year is flying by. And although Dorian is not affected by old age, his moral decline becomes even more evident. Reliving the rumors, Dorian is visited by Basil. She blames him and confesses her feelings, but Dorian lacks patience – he decides to show Basil the changed, hideous portrait and, in an inhuman rage, stabs the artist. To get rid of his guilt and escape from his tormenting thoughts, Dorian goes out to wander among the poor, where his bad habits are revealed in all their beauty. There, Dorian is attacked by Sybil’s brother James, who has been seeking revenge for Sybil’s death for years. Shocked by this event, Dorian promises to be good. He longs for a clean past, a clear conscience, and realizes that the only way to get it back is to destroy the portrait.

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