RAIMUNDAS
BANIONIS
OPERA DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
RAIMUNDAS BANIONIS
OPERA DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
ABOUT
Raimundas Banionis was born in 1957 in Panevezys, Lithuania, the son of Donatas and Ona Banionis. In 1980, he graduated from Moscow Film School Vgik, where he studied film directing in Lev Kulidhanov’s and Tatjana Liosnova’s master class.
From 1980, Raimundas worked as a film director in the Lithuanian State Film Studio and in 1991 he joined the private film company “Litnek”, where he is directing and producing feature films, documentaris, TV programmes and commercials.
SELECT PRODUCTIONS
Operas produced by Raimundas Banionis:
J.S. Bach Mystery – “Matthaus-Passion”. Lithuanian National Chamber Orchestra and Saulius Sondeckis (2000)
G. Verdi – “Rigoletto”. Klaipeda State Music Theatre (2003)
G. Puccini – “Tosca”. Estonian National Opera (Oksana Dyka, Badri Maisuradze, Sergey Leiferkus – 2005)
T. Kutavicius – opera-poem “Snake’s Eyes” (2005)
W.A. Mozart – “Don Giovani”. Klaipeda State Music Theatre (2006)
F. Alizade – “Garabaghname”. Baku I International Rostropofich Festival (2007)
G. Puccini – “Tosca”. Trondheim Opera and Symphony Orchestra, Norway (2009)
G. Puccini – “Turandot”. Trondheim Opera and Symphony Orchestra, Norway (2012)
P. I. Tchaikovsky – “Iolanta”. Klaipeda Music Theatre and ZavArté Classlic, Lithuania (2016)
TV-productions:
“MINDAUGAS”
1995
“ADOMAS MICKEVIČIUS. Versions of Reality”
1998
“Juozas MILTINIS. An Unknown Interview”
2000
“THE MEETING”
2005
“RIGOLETTO”
2008
TV serials:
„Together“ 2000-2001 m. BTV;
„Gedimino 11“ 2001 m. BTV,
„Prosecutors“ 2002-2003 m. LTV,
„Company of honour” 2007 16 series LNK-Videometra
„Women lie better” 2008 78 series TV3-Videometra
„Company of honour 2” 2008 16 series LNK-Videometra
„Emilija” 2009 90 series TV3-Videometra
„Gedimino 11-2“ 2010 16 series, TV3-Videometra
„The Price of Courage “ 2010 86 series, TV3-Videometra
TV broadcasts:
„Korida“, „TTT“, „Sąmokslo teorija“ 2002-2004 m. TV4,
„Nesutinku“ 2004 m. TV 3,
„Paskutinė instancija“ 2005-2006 m. LNK
Other:
Presentation films
CONTACT
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT
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EMAIL
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