Mezzo-soprano Jurgita Adamonytė was born in Lithuania and graduated with a Master of Music diploma from the Lithuanian Academy of Music. She continued her studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, the Royal Academy of Music, London and the Cardiff International Academy of Voice. She has won first prize in numerous vocal competitions throughout Europe.

She made her debut as Zerlina Don Giovanni with the Lithuanian National Opera, since when she has appeared with the Czech National Theatre in Ostrava Maddalena in Rigoletto, the Royal Academy Opera in London Handel’s Rinaldo and Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera, with Frankfurt Opera Theatre Glanert’s Caligula – world premiere and with Opera Theatre of Chicago Ursula in Beatrice and Benedict.

Most recently she has sung Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro in the Salzburg Festival production on tour to Japan under the baton of Robin Ticciati and Idamantes Idomeneo with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi in Amsterdam, Lisbon and London. She has sung Dorabella and Cherubino for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

This season she sings Mozart’s Requiem with the Northern Sinfonia, the Page (Salome) for the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Cherubino in Sweden, Dorabella in Florida and returns to the Salzburg Festival and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride).