The annual Riga Opera Festival will take place at the Latvian National Opera from June 5 to 18.

 

 

In 18 years, the Riga Opera festival has become a valuable tradition awaited by culture aficionados in Latvia and foreign viewers alike. Festival of 2015 will be the first of these events, dedicated to one composer only – to musical genius, master of Italian verismo Giacomo Puccini.

 

 

The Festival will invite to flamboyant new productions of operas by Puccini – to the tragic story of a wayward woman MANON LESCAUT and to the first of Puccini’s opuses – LE VILLI – a choreographic tale about broken hearts and spirits. The LNO curtain will rise for several operas, favored by public as well as by critics – the humorous GIANNI SCHICCHI, heart-felt La bohème, oriental MADAMA BUTTERFLY and dramatically richly intense TOSCA. And, of course, the most beautiful of Puccini’s opera arias will be heard in the Gala Concert.

 

 

There are brightest stars of Latvian and international opera stage among the soloists of Festival, – Maija Kovaļevska, Liene Kinča, Egils Siliņš, Hiromi Omura, Dmytro Popov, Murat Karahan, Eric Fennell and others.  

 

 

Tickets at the LNO and Biļešu paradīze box office from January 19, 2015.

 

Patron of the Festival