An extensive program of 11 events – 10 concerts and an opera performance in historical candlelight – is expected in two days in Bauska (in the palace, the cultural center and the church of St. Gara).
Saturday, July 9, at At 12.00, the festival will start with a children’s concert Ancient musical instruments in the Bauska cultural center, but the Greek medieval music ensemble will open Out of Silence French secular XIV-XV centuries. in the music program The Decline of the Middle Ages: French Traditions and Mediterranean Courts Bauska Palace at 14.00 In the castle tower at 16.00 concert of old English songs Come Again Sweet Love will be performed by soprano Elīna Šimkus, Kristīne Stumbure (flute) and Italian lutenist Mauro Pincaroli. Bauska Palace at 18.00 – renaissance poetry and music concert by actors Sigitas Pļaviņas, Ivo Martinsons and harpsichordist Gertruda Jerjomenko Lumpy love.
Tragicomic opera in two acts by the Italian composer Stefano Landi The Death of Orpheus (La morte d’Orfeo, 1619) under the leadership of conductor Māras Kupčas in the Bauska cultural center at At 7:30 p.m., an international lineup of Latvian, Lithuanian and Italian soloists – Monta Martinsone, Rūta Vosīlūte, Ieva Sumeja, Nora Kalniņa, Anete Viļuma, Simona Jocevičūte, mezzo-soprano Emma Alesi Inočenti, tenor Igns Ščesnulevičs, basses Krišs Pozemkovskis, Daniils Kuzmins and Arūns Maliks – will perform, as also College of Music Riga and College Choir of Music Riga. The day will be closed by one of the best early music ensembles of the new generation in Europe The Chromatic Chamber (France) in a night concert A Chromatic Journey at 23.00 in the courtyard of Bauska Palace by candlelight.
Several events on Sunday, July 10 are available for free. Young talent – students of the Early Music Department of the Latvian Music Academy of Jāzeps Vītolas – for a concert at 11.30 Bauska St. In the Church of the Spirit, concerts will follow in the Bauska Palace, where at 13.00 Ancient legends Ukrainian musician Maria Viksnina (turban) will perform, but at 15.00 at the concert Brittle love the music will be performed by Ieva Sumeja (soprano), Laura Sharov (baroque violin) and Chloé de Guillebon (harpsichord, France). Program Music in times of change at At 17.00, Ła Kindere (baroque violin, Lithuania/USA) and Vilims Norkūns (harpsichord) will perform. Festival crowns in the XVI and XVII centuries. an Italian quartet of Italian music Vanvitelli Quartet at the concert The Academy of the Wanderers at 19.00
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