Velnio Nuotaka's lyrics & chords

The Devil's Bride was written and staged in 1972-1973 in Lithuania as the first rock opera. Of course, it was impossible to name it like this at that time. Anyway, the composer and jazz performer Viačeslav Ganelin, the poet Sigitas Geda and the film director Arūnas Žebriūnas were already famous in those days. Singers were invited from the "street" - hippies and young bohemian youths from night clubs and restaurants. In that scene The Devil's Bride became a sort of underground poem, too. The plot and motif were borrowed from the Lithuanian n...read more