RIGA OPERA FESTIVAL 2025

Riga Opera Festival, founded in 1998 as the first festival of its size and scale in Eastern Europe, it has already become a treasured tradition. The festival is highly anticipated by both Latvian audiences and opera-lovers from abroad, which form the majority of all Riga Opera Festival fans. Since 2022, the festival programme includes also ballet performances.

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).