Laima Vilimienė
General Manager
Laima Vilimienė has been the General Manager of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre since September 2024.
She graduated with a degree in musicology from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (1991), and in 2006 obtained Master's degree in Management and Business Administration from ISM University of Management and Economics and BI Norwegian Institute of Management. Trained in performing arts organizations in Belgium.
Before working at the LNOBT, L. Vilimienė was the head of the Information and Advertising Department of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra (1995–2002), the deputy general manager of LNOBT for marketing (2002–2018), and the general manager of the Klaipėda State Musical Theatre (2018–2024). On 20 April 2024, under the leadership of L. Vilimienė, the new building of the Klaipėda State Musical Theatre was opened – this is the first musical theatre built during the entire period of the restored independence of Lithuania.
L. Vilimienė taught at the Vilnius J. Tallat-Kelpša Conservatory (1991 to 2001), and since 1997 has been a lecturer at the Art Management Department of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2002 L. Vilimienė has been member of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, and in 2023 she was elected as the chairman of the Council of the Association of State Performing Arts Institutions.
L. Vilimienė is member and manager of many music project organizational groups, generator and organizer of ideas for creative projects, member of master classes, evaluation committees, consultant and organizer of such international music festivals as Kopa'93, 94, 95, 96 in Klaipėda, Musica ficta'97 and Gaida'96 in Vilnius, Baltic Harp Music Festival 2011, organizer and head of the organizational group of the international Vilnius Opera Festival in 2009, member of the LNOBT children's opera competition jury in 2008, Chairwoman of LNOBT's annual Young Opera Soloist Audition jury from 2013 to 2018, founder and manager of the opera trainee program, founder of the idea of Bravissimo magazine published by LNOBT since 2005 and long-time chairwoman of the magazine's editorial board, founder and artistic director of the international Klaipėda festival (from 2021), etc.
At the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, L. Vilimienė was a member of the expert committee for support to young artists (2004–2007), a music expert (2008–2010), member of the working group for the preparation of the national program of professional performing arts (2017).
L. Vilimienė has published over 100 articles on the topics of musicology, music history and art management. She participated in conferences and forums of the Opera Europa association held at opera houses in Prague (Czech Republic), Bergamo (Italy), Strasbourg (Belgium), Karlsruhe (Germany), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), RESEO conference in Paris (France), at the Classical NordicBaltic conferences in Riga and Vilnius, at the conferences of the European Association of Employers in the Performing Arts Sector (PEARLE) in Brussels (Belgium) and Prague (Czech Republic), etc. She was a participant in discussions at Neringa Lithuanian Capital of Culture 2021 Forum Development of Creative Residencies (Nida, Lithuania); Lithuanian Music Theatre Today: What Happens and What Can Be Done round table of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania; the 1st World Opera Forum in Madrid (Spain); seminar The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations at the University of Maryland (USA). She also read reports at the international theatre seminar in Kyiv (Possibilities of Theatre Co-Production), at the HARPS symposium Functions of the Arts in Cultural and Social Processes in Vilnius (G. Verdi's Operas: a Brand?), at the 12th international conference Principles of Music Composition: Interfaces of Music and Visual Arts in Vilnius (Musical Painting and Painterly Music in the Art of A. Schoenberg and W. Kandinsky) etc.
L. Vilimienė's article Medieval Secular Music, published in the textbook Music Language. The Middle Ages. Renaissance (Part I, 2006) together with the authors’ team was awarded the 1st place at the Lithuanian higher education textbook competition. L. Vilimienė was awarded a letter of gratitude from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania (2016), as well as the honorary sign of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Carry Your Light and Believe (2020).