“The genre of opera music is very close to me, so I am very happy about the concerts at the end of this summer’s opera! Liepāja is like a second home for me, and every concert with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra is very welcome. I look forward to the Sigulda Opera Music Festival with special feelings. , it is the richest and most remarkable opera music event in Latvia, where the brightest domestic and world singers perform every year, “says conductor Atvars Lakstīgala about the upcoming concerts.
Festival Liepaja summer will return to his historic home this year – Liepāja Jurmala Park, renovated concert garden Blow wind! To mark this solemn moment, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Atvar Lakstīgala, will perform well-known opera arias and overtures by Verdi, Rubinstein, Puccini, Wagner and other genius composers.
“In opera music, the closest composers to me are Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini – I like to interpret them, but their compositions also carry a lot of responsibility, because this music has a lot of emotional and technical sophistication, as well as strong performance traditions. I have rarely conducted Richard Wagner’s music. however, it is so strong and majestic that at the end of Liepāja I have even included two compositions by Wagner from his opera Nuremberg Masters“comments the opening concert program of the festival.
Liepaja summers The soloists of the opening concert will be world-famous singers – Latvian bass baritone, domestic opera star Egils Siliņš, Italian tenor Dario di Vietri and Serbian soprano Marija Jeliča. Dario di Vietri has won laurels and received significant criticism from many prestigious world opera houses, while the new Serbian opera diva Maria Jelic started a serious professional career only a few years ago, but has already won the sympathy of listeners and critics in many countries around the world. Both opera singers will perform in Latvia for the first time.
The Sigulda Opera Music Festival will take place for the twenty-eighth time this summer. Atvars Lakstīgala will participate in them for the eighth year in a row. This year, the festival’s choir and orchestra will perform at the Gala Concert with Laktīgala together with prominent world opera stars – Tanius Ivanovs from Bulgaria, Perina Madef from France and Dominik Suttovica from Poland, as well as local singers Mikhail Chulpayev, Rinaldi Bagels.
Atvars Lakstīgala started his career as a musician as a professional forester. He was the chief conductor of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra. The conductor’s repertoire consists of Giuseppe Verdi Traviata, Masku balle, Makbets and Falstafu, Giacomo Puccini Triptych and Toska, Peter Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Sergei Prokofiev Love the three oranges Zilinska Golden horse and the final concert of the Sigulda Opera Music Festival with the participation of Marina Rebeka. Together with Ainars Rubikis, the premiere of Kristaps Peterson’s opera was conducted Mikhail and Mikhail play chess, ballet performances have also been conducted Giselle, Camellia lady and Three meetings. Together with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, more than 20 album recordings have been made Skani, Wergo, Odradek and Danacord, as well as the premiere of Kārlis Lāča Latvian Symphony, Juris Carlson’s Ninth Liepaja Concert Gliese 581, Santas Ratniece’s Seventh Liepaja Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Rihards Dubra’s Second Symphony, Andris Vecumnieks’ Sinfonia C. The conductor’s tour covers Germany, Turkey, Lithuania, Italy, China, India and Brazil. Winner of international competitions. He won the Grand Music Award as a conductor in the category For an outstanding debut.
More information – on the conductor’s website www.atvars-lakstigala.com.
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