OLGA KONOŠENKO

BIOGRAPHY

Olga Konošenko was born in Vilnius on January 1, 1978. After graduating from the Vilnius M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in 1996, she joined the Ballet Company of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2002 she won diploma and special prize for musicality at the Perm International Ballet Competition “Arabesk”. The same year she received an award of Jurgis Žalkauskas, a chairman of an Australian Ballet Society and became a winner of the “Švyturiai” prize as the Ballet Hope of the Year, in2007,  2010, 2011 and 2016 she became a winner of the “Švyturiai” prize as the Female Ballet Soloist of the Year.

She has toured with the Ballet company of the LNOBT to Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, USA, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, Holland, Denmark etc.Repertoire includes:
Raymonda (“Raymonda”)
Egle(“Eglė, the Queen of Grass-Snakes”)
Mari (“The Nutcracker”)
Odette and Odile (“Swan lake”)
Ekaterina(“Russian Hamlet”)
Capuletti (“Romeo and Juliet”)
The Queen of the Dryads, Grand Pas (“Don Quixote”)
Magnolia (“Cipollino”)
Lilac Fairy (“The Sleeping Beauty”)
Snow White (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”)
Venus (“Walpurgis Night”)
Cinderella (“Cinderella”)
Soloist (“Acid city”)
Soloist (“Carmina Burana”)
Mirhta (“Giselle”)
Lucia (“Venecian Masquerade”)
Ipolitta and Titania (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”)
Ballerina (“Red Giselle”)
Olympia (“Coppelia”)
Sylphide (“La Sylphide”)
Gamzatti (“La Bayadere”),
Blanchefleur („Tristan and Isolde”),
Sofia, Bronislava („Čiurlionis”),
Carmen („Carmen”)
Snow Queen (“The Snow Queen”), etc.