A Night at the OperaA Concert by the Lithuanian Opera Chorus, Chicago, from the Aleksandras Plenys Collection at the Balzekas Museum Put on your finery, pour some champagne, and join us for A Night at the Opera Beginning on Friday, Nov. 27, 2021 at 7PM Central Time, the Balzekas Museum will host “A Night at the Opera”, […]
The Balzekas Museum is proud to announce that the digitization and presentation of the Plenys video collection of the Chicago Lithuanian Opera Company productions has been selected for the Chicago Department of Culture and Special Events “Music in the Key of Chicago” program, a yearlong celebration of Chicago music, now extended through 2021! Mayor Lori E. […]
This Saturday, June. 5d., 2 v.p.p., Audronė Šemetaitė-Murtaugh from Cleveland will present her late father’s, A.a. Alex Šemeta’s, book “Memories of an Ordinary Partisan” (“Elinio partizano atsiminimai”). The book describes the struggle for independence against the Bermontians, the West Russian Volunteer Army, in the Šiauliai region and Kužiai eldership, which took place in 1919, in […]