RIGA OPERA FESTIVAL 2025

Riga Opera Festival 2025 will take place from June 1 to June 20. The program includes both new productions of operas and ballets, as well as striking performances from previous seasons. As is tradition, the festival and the entire season will culminate in a spectacular Gala Concert.

The festival will feature all the new opera productions of this season – Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Salome, Flavio, re de' longobardi, and last year's production of L'elisir d'amore, as well as the opera Macbeth, which recently returned to the Latvian National Opera's repertoire. A significant focus of the festival will be a selection of Giuseppe Verdi's operas from the LNO's golden repertoire, offering audiences an opportunity to meet exceptional guest artists.

On June 15, the opera La traviata will see the debut of rising French opera star Vannina Santoni as Violetta. Joining her on stage will be well-known artists – Czech tenor Pavel Černoch as Alfredo and Romanian baritone Bogdan Baciu as Giorgio Germont. In the opera Aida on June 18, Irakli Kakhidze will perform the role of Radamès. Meanwhile, the opera Nabucco on June 19 will feature the world-renowned Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska as Abigaille.

In addition to this season’s ballet productions Casanova and Esmeralda, the festival will also showcase timeless classics like Swan Lake, the midsummer-themed production Antonia #Silmači, and the contemporary ballet Nijinski.

The Riga Opera Festival will conclude on June 20 with a Gala Concert conducted by Mārtiņš Ozoliņš. The concert will feature brilliant singers such as Lithuanian opera star Vida Miknevičiūtė, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Irakli Kakhidze, and internationally acclaimed Latvian soloists Zanda Švēde and Aleksandrs Antoņenko. In this concert, the highly sought-after Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan will perform for the first time on the stage of the Latvian National Opera.

PROGRAMME

June 1, 6 p.m. - opera "Flavio, re de' Longobardi" by Georg Friedrich Händel

June 4, 7 p.m. - opera "L'elisir d'amore" by Gaetano Donizetti

June 5, 7 p.m. - ballet "Antonija #Silmači" by Juris Karlsons

June 6, 7 p.m. - opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss

June 7, 7 p.m. - ballet "Swan Lake" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

June 10, 7 p.m. - opera "Macbeth" by Giuseppe Verdi

June 11, 7 p.m. - ballet "La Esmeralda" by  Cesare Pugni, Riccardo Drigo

June 12, 7 p.m. - opera "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach

June 13, 7 p.m. - ballet "Casanova" by Kerry Muzzey

June 14, 7 p.m. - ballet "Nijinski" with music by Friderick Chopin and Claude Debussy

June 15, 7 p.m. - opera "La traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi

June 18, 7 p.m. - opera "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi

June 19, 7 p.m. - opera "Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi

June 20, 7 p.m. - Riga Opera Festival Gala Concert 

Tickets to the festival events are available at www.opera.lv and LNO box office (Aspazijas bulvaris 3, Riga).