Tadas Girininkas, born in Lithuania, earned his Master’s degree at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2009 (class of Prof. V. Prudnikovas).
In the 2025/26 season he is singing Albano in a new production of Ponchielli’s opera I Lituani (staged by Hugo de Ana) at the Lithuanian National Opera, Timur (Turandot), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Banco (Macbeth), König Heinrich (Lohengrin), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Jesus (Johannes-Passion), among others. Recent highlights include his debut as Filippo II (Don Carlo) at the Latvian National Opera, Leporello in a new production of Don Giovanni at the Lithuanian National Opera, and Händel’s Messiah at the Pažaislis Music Festival.
Earlier seasons brought debuts as Sparafucile (Rigoletto) in Las Palmas, Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Ramfis (Aida) in Vilnius and St. Gallen, and King Roger at the Pažaislis Music Festival. He has also sung Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra) in Riga, Mephistopheles (Faust) in St. Gallen and Copenhagen, Enrico (Anna Bolena), Wurm (Luisa Miller), and major roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Oroveso (Norma), and Bonzo (Madama Butterfly).
His repertoire includes Colline (La bohème), Rocco (Fidelio), De Silva (Ernani), Zuniga (Carmen), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Escamillo (Carmen), Attila (Attila), Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea), among many others.
Girininkas has collaborated with conductors such as Daniel Oren, Trevor Pinnock, James Gaffigan, Modestas Pitrėnas, and stage directors including Franco Zeffirelli, Jan Philipp Gloger, and Jean-Claude Berutti. He has performed with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, State Symphony, and others.
As an oratorio soloist he has appeared in Franck’s Les Béatitudes, Händel’s Alexander’s Feast, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Schnittke’s Faust Cantata, and Britten’s War Requiem.
Tadas was named Lithuania’s Opera Soloist of the Year in 2013 and twice received the Golden Stage Cross, the country’s highest theatre award (2014 and 2021).
