Artistic Director of Opera, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

“No doubt—Martynas has a special gift for his profession—the flow of his energy and his musicianship are eye and ear catching.”

Maestro Gidon Kremer

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Stefana Atlas

Managing Director

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Ina Marija Ubaite

Head of Special Projects and Partnerships, Artist Manager

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Joshua John

Associate Manager

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General management

Website Press Packet

Lithuanian conductor Martynas Stakionis’ has been praised for his “love of detail… and great meticulousness” (Bachtrack.com).

In 2025–26, he begins his tenure as Artistic Director of Opera at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (LNOBT) leading a premiere of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and repertoire productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Il Trittico, and Bizet’s Carmen. Last season’s highlights include his debut at Theater an der Wien for Johann Strauss’ Das Spitzentuch der Königin, a new production in honor of the composer’s 200 birthday which won the Operetta Award from BR-KLASSIK, a new production of Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater and Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann at LNOBT.

He has conducted the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, St. Gallen Symphony, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Mozarteum Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Hamburg Symphony, Lithuanian National Symphony, Lithuanian National Opera Symphony, Schleswig-Holstein State Theatre Symphony, Kremerata Baltica, and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

For his performance of Gubaidulina’s Fachwerk with Kremerata Baltica at the Bergen Music Festival, Stakionis received the 2018 Norwegian Critics Association award for Best Music Performance of the Season. He has developed a strong relationship with Gidon Kremer through his partnership with Kremerata Baltica at the Kronberg Academy Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Dvorakova Praha, and the Auditorium de la Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where he conducted the French premiere of Greater Antiphons by Arvo Pärt, which was recorded by Medici.tv.

From 2021 to 2023, Stakionis served as Artistic Director for the Opera Accelerator, an ambitious international opera program, in cooperation with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Stakionis now serves as guest conductor at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic and has conducted and recorded numerous concerts with the orchestra since his debut in 2015.

Steeped in a rich choral background from an early age, Stakionis has conducted the Latvian Radio Choir, Arnold Schönberg Choir, Latvian and Lithuanian State Choirs, Paris National Opera‘s Children's Choir, and Hannover Mädchenchor, winning several competitions, most notably the 2014 Fifth Jazeps Vitols Choral Conductors Competition in 2014.

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contact

Stefana Atlas

Managing Director

email

Ina Marija Ubaite

Head of Special Projects and Partnerships, Artist Manager

email

Joshua John

Associate Manager

email

General management

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Artistic Director of Opera, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

“No doubt—Martynas has a special gift for his profession—the flow of his energy and his musicianship are eye and ear catching.”

Maestro Gidon Kremer

contact

Stefana Atlas

Managing Director

email

Ina Marija Ubaite

Managing Director

email

General management

Website Press Packet

Lithuanian conductor Martynas Stakionis’ has been praised for his “love of detail… and great meticulousness” (Bachtrack.com).

In 2025–26, he begins his tenure as Artistic Director of Opera at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (LNOBT) leading a premiere of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and repertoire productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Il Trittico, and Bizet’s Carmen. Last season’s highlights include his debut at Theater an der Wien for Johann Strauss’ Das Spitzentuch der Königin, a new production in honor of the composer’s 200 birthday which won the Operetta Award from BR-KLASSIK, a new production of Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater and Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann at LNOBT.

He has conducted the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, St. Gallen Symphony, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Mozarteum Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Hamburg Symphony, Lithuanian National Symphony, Lithuanian National Opera Symphony, Schleswig-Holstein State Theatre Symphony, Kremerata Baltica, and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

For his performance of Gubaidulina’s Fachwerk with Kremerata Baltica at the Bergen Music Festival, Stakionis received the 2018 Norwegian Critics Association award for Best Music Performance of the Season. He has developed a strong relationship with Gidon Kremer through his partnership with Kremerata Baltica at the Kronberg Academy Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Dvorakova Praha, and the Auditorium de la Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where he conducted the French premiere of Greater Antiphons by Arvo Pärt, which was recorded by Medici.tv.

From 2021 to 2023, Stakionis served as Artistic Director for the Opera Accelerator, an ambitious international opera program, in cooperation with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Stakionis now serves as guest conductor at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic and has conducted and recorded numerous concerts with the orchestra since his debut in 2015.

Steeped in a rich choral background from an early age, Stakionis has conducted the Latvian Radio Choir, Arnold Schönberg Choir, Latvian and Lithuanian State Choirs, Paris National Opera‘s Children's Choir, and Hannover Mädchenchor, winning several competitions, most notably the 2014 Fifth Jazeps Vitols Choral Conductors Competition in 2014.

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