The Andrej Žagar Foundation for Cultural Development has just announced the upcoming concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Riga under the direction of Andras Nelsons, artistic director and conductor of the orchestra.
BSO will visit Latvia with concerts for the first time, it will be an important event for the local and international music community. The performances in Riga will take place on May 11 and 12, 2025 at the Latvian National Opera.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concerts in Riga will be part of the orchestra’s European tour dedicated to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. These concerts are organized by the Andrejas Žagar Cultural Development Foundation, giving the public in Latvia a unique opportunity to enjoy the sound of the great orchestra led by conductor Andras Nelsons.
The concerts of the American orchestra will be special with a program that is diverse and full of emotion and also different. Shostakovich’s Sixth and Eighth Symphonies will be performed at the May 11 concert, and on May 12, along with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, the First Violin Concerto will be performed, featuring the famous violinist from Latvian Baiba Skride performing as a soloist.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s European tour, which begins in Vienna, will continue in Prague, Riga and will end in Leipzig with an eight-day residency at the Leipzig Shostakovich Festival,
it will give the audience the opportunity to enjoy Shostakovich’s diverse and saturated music, which both the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Andris Nelsons are especially fond of.
It may seem that there is still plenty of time until next May, but ticket sales in Riga will start already in December this year. According to Sandis Voldiņš, who will be the chairman of the board of the National Opera and Ballet from November 4, the last time Andris Nelsons visited Riga with his other orchestra, of which he is artistic director, the Leipzig “Gewandhaus” orchestra. tickets were snapped up within seven minutes. As they will not be free this time either, and so that the widest audience can enjoy the concert, it is being considered to place large screens in front of the Opera, as is being done do elsewhere in Europe and Europe. world for the sake of democracy in concerts at the same level.
Andris Nelsons from Boston had come to Riga for a couple of days, and after the official press conference there was an opportunity to ask questions to the world famous Latvian leader.
Andri, how does it feel to be in Riga again and before the concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra?
A. Nelson: I previously had the opportunity to perform in Latvia with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and in 2018 with the Leipzig “Gewandhaus” Orchestra, and now I am especially proud to present the great performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Latvian listening.
2024-10-11 21:02:00
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