Programme includes music by Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Dvorak, Giordano, Verdi, Puccini, Khachaturian, Korngold, Richard Strauss

KRISTĪNE OPOLAIS is one of the young world opera stars whose career has been a giddy success. She sings at the Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Wien, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and many other places performing a large scale of roles - from the small character parts to the big dramatic parts. She is highly acclaimed wherever she appears with her powerful acting and beautiful voice.

„She [Kristine Opolais] brought a raw intensity and a beautifully nuanced voice. Her resinous soprano could give voice to an anguish big enough to take on an entire orchestra - yet could murmur, too, in a half-voice light as a snowflake."

Hilary Finch, The Times, 27th October 2008

Harri Kuusisaari, Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, 20 December 2009

„Vocally the Latvian soprano presented a downright sensational performance. Renée Fleming who sings in one of the most beautiful Rusalka recordings sat in the director's box right next to Nikolaus Bachler and listened to a worthy successor."
Volker Boser, Abendzeitung, 24th October 2010

„[...] while Kristine Opolais's Mimi was wonderfully expressive, with a vocal poise to match her instinctive, deeply felt interpretation."
Rian Evans, The Guardian, 28th October 2008