Music
Open To The World 26: Christopher Tin, LVSO, ISM Choir Bel Canto & Friends
FRI, 04 DEC · 19:00
LVSO koncertų salė · Vilniaus g. 6
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About this event
From Renaissance visions to the Cold War space race – OTTW’26 presents epic music about courage, progress, and humanity's quest to conquer the sky. In this unique cinematic concert, hundred-million-view video game hits, the writings of L. da Vinci, and the legendary JFK Moon speech will merge with the historic finale of "Turandot". Having conquered the Washington stage and the Olympic ice, it will be reborn in the most anticipated premiere in Europe!
Continuing the unique "Open To The World" festival, the ISM Choir "Bel Canto" offers an exceptional concert experience. On December 4–5, 2026, the festival presents one of the most famous contemporary composers of concert, opera, and video game music, conductor, and two-time Grammy winner Christopher Tin (USA). After two sold-out performances in 2024, he returns to Vilnius with an even more ambitious program.
The largest OTTW’26 concert will bring together 230 performers from Lithuania, the USA, Sweden, France, and Ukraine: the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, three choirs – the ISM Choir "Bel Canto", the Swedish "A Scalpella", and the girls' choir "Liepaitės" – the vocal ensemble "Les Itinérantes", vocalist Jamal Moore, and soloists Kseniya Bakhritdinova (soprano) and Peter Drackley (tenor).
The only evening of its kind in Europe: epic music about the history of flight and the human desire to rise
For the only time this year in Europe, the world-renowned Tin album "To Shiver the Sky" will be performed live at the LVSO Concert Hall. It is an oratorio about the history of flight and humanity's quest to conquer the sky. In it, eleven of the most famous astronomers, inventors, visionaries, and pilots speak about our relentless desire to explore the universe, defy earthly limits, and earn our place among the stars.
The themes of scientific knowledge and discovery in the program are connected by two powerful highlights: the "Civilization VI" video game hit "Sogno di Volare", inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's texts on flight, and the historic US President John F. Kennedy speech "We Choose to Go to the Moon". It became one of the most prominent symbols of the Cold War and the "space race" that rallied American society for the flight to the Moon.
"To Shiver the Sky" also opens up the dark side of progress. "Become Death" is the album's most dramatic and mystical piece. If many compositions celebrate progress and the joy of flight, this one reveals the shadow of technological progress – the creation of a weapon of mass destruction. The piece directly reflects the emergence of the atomic bomb and the spiritual crisis of its creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, reminding us that the same scientific evolution that began with Leonardo da Vinci's dreams of flight ultimately gave humanity the power to destroy itself.
When & where
DEC
