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Since 2022/23, Indre Pelakauskaite is a member of the Opera Studio Niederrhein (Krefeld-Mönchengladbach), where she performs roles such as First Spirit (Rusalka), Erste Elfe / Soprano solo (Ein Sommernachtstraum by F. Mendelssohn) and La Contessa di Ceprano (Rigoletto) among others.

In May 2022, the young lyrical soprano successfully debuted as Madame Jouvenot in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 2021 saw her debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn as well as her debut as Climene in Gluck’s La Corona. Other highlights in 2021 were her debut as Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème at Kunstbogen Wien, her participation in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony Nr. 2 “Resurrection” as well as her debut as Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. In 2019 she performed the roles of the Mother in Humperndinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Elisetta in Il matimonio segreto by Domenico Cimarosa.  

The Lithuanian soprano recently won the Third Prize and the Audience Prize at the Hans Staud Musikpreis competition and is also a prize winner of the 31st International Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg competition in 2022. Furthermore, she won a Special Price at the Gustav-Mahler-Liedwettbewerb in 2016 as well as the Second Prize of the international Viva la music cometiton in 2013 and the First Prize at the Dainos sparnais aplink pasaulį competition in Lithuania.

Indre Pelakauskaite has participated in masterclasses with Laura Aikin, Kassimira Stoyanova, Violeta Urmana, KS Brigitte Fassbaender and Laura Sarti . 

She studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Prof. Carolyn Grace James and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Gabriele Lechner, Prof. Christoph Meier as well as Prof. Michael Sturminger.