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Get free articles and features available only to subscribers. Lithuania was the first of the Soviet republics to declare independence, in 1990, and achieved it the following year. During the past decade and a half, it has turned increasingly toward the West; in 2004 Lithuania became a member of the European Union.
Opera in the nation's capital has a surprisingly long history, with the earliest recorded performance in 1634. Various German, Russian or Italian companies dominated at different times in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vilnius is a city with a particularly troubled history.
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