Ieva Prudnikovaitė

“Star Duets: A New Era” is a Lithuanian television music show broadcast on LNK. The project brings together ten celebrity duos who perform popular songs live on stage each week. A unique feature of the format is that after the first four episodes, the lowest-ranked pair leaves the competition, and the show continues until the final, where the winning duet is crowned. The program combines music, entertainment, and celebrity charisma, offering viewers not only strong performances but also exciting competition and emotional stories.

A general and his stepdaughter are both heavily in debt. When the family's tutor, in love with the girl, gets lucky at the gambling table, he tries to rescue her from her desperate situation, but she outright rejects him. Prokofiev's first full-length opera The Gambler, based on Dostoyevsky's partly autobiographical novella ironically written to settle gambling debts, is rarely performed today. This 2020 production brings together director Vasily Barkhatov and conductor Modestas Pitrenas and stars the winner of the 2019 International Opera Award, Asmik Grigorian, in the role of Polina.