Laimonas Pautienius, baritone, was born in Lithuania. His repertoire includes Yeletsky in Pique Dam, the title role in Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky), the title role in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Germont in La traviata (Verdi), Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Falke in Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Danilo in Die lustige Witwe (Lehar), Schlemil in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach) and many other roles. This is his Israeli Opera debut.