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The song program of Rihards Strauss, Alfreds Kalnins and Jānis Mediņš, who was awarded the Grand Music Prize, is now immortalized in a new music album “Das Rosenband”, but the romantic concert program created especially for the concert series “Personally” will be complemented by an insight into both artists’ new motifs Compositions by Jean Sibelius, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
“Stylistically, the whole program we will offer to listeners in Liepaja is very unified, the song titles have a lot of flowers, nature, such as black roses, dragonfly and snow for Sibelius, daisies and lilacs for Rachmaninov or clouds for Rimsky-Korsakov,” the soprano introduces the mood and theme of the program. Inga Kalna.
The album “Das Rosenband” was released under the auspices of the national record company “Skani” earlier this year and has already earned international recognition, including a nomination for the prestigious “Opus Klassik” award. Concert attendees will have the opportunity to purchase the newly released album.
Subject to epidemiological safety requirements, the post-concert meeting with the artists, which is typical of the series “Personally”, will not take place this time.
Soprano Inga Kalna has gained world fame with her amazing vocal skills, clear voice and felt interpretations. The artist stands out with bright classicist, baroque and contemporary operas, as well as expressive vocal symphonic music performances. After several years of career at the Hamburg State Opera, Inga Kalna is now a freelance artist and performs in German, French, Canadian and Italian opera houses. He has won the Grand Music Prize four times (1995, 1998, 2002, 2014), as well as the British Goldberg Operatic Prize and the German Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdorfer Prize for singers and dancers.
Pianist Diana Kettler is a two-time Grand Music Award winner who, in addition to concert life and recordings with prestigious companies such as BBC Radio 3, is also Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Professor at the Geneva School of Music, as well as Artistic Director “Germany and SoNoRo” in Romania. The talented pianist has founded one of the world’s most sought-after chamber music ensembles “Ensemble Raro”, but in Latvia he has collaborated with Sinfonietta Riga, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Latvian Radio Choir.
According to the security level chosen by the event organizer, the event will be open to people who: have been vaccinated against Covid-19; have contracted Covid-19 in the last six months; have tested Covid-19 within the last 48 hours with negative results; have performed a Covid-19 rapid antigen test within the last six hours with negative results.
When attending the event, each visitor must present at the entrance a covid-19 certificate corresponding to the security level, an identity document and an entrance ticket to the event. A face mask and a distance of two meters must be worn during the event.
Tickets can be purchased at the box offices of “Biļešu paradīze” and in the information center of the concert hall “Lielais dzintars”.
The concert has been postponed from January 8, 2021. Previously purchased tickets are valid for the event by performing ticket personalization on the “Biļešu paradīze” website.
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