Kęstutis Antanėlis (28 March 1951 – 12 October 2020) was a Lithuanian composer, architect, and sculptor.

Career

Kęstutis Antanėlis was born in Vilnius. In 1975 he graduated from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (former V.I.S.I.) and later from the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. As an architect he designed buildings, interiors, furniture (the Republic of Lithuania credentials Hall, 1995), and a stained-glass office building. As an artist he created various sculptures. As a composer he wrote nearly 200 songs and about 80 instrumental pieces. In 1971 he was the first in Europe and the second in the world to stage the Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. He was noted for his work on the rock opera Love and Death in Verona, and staging and singing in Romeo and Juliet in Vilnius in 1982. In 1998, he performed at the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in Germany. In 1997 he staged the opera Peer Gynt.

Works