The most brilliant Latvian bass-baritone Egils Siliņš is the winner of countless vocal competitions and in his career has conquered the golden five opera houses of the world – the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Bastille Opera in Paris, the Covent Garden Opera in London – as well as many other world opera houses. In total, he participated in various productions in around 40 opera houses around the world, including leading European and American theaters. He gained world fame with the role of Mephistopheles in Charles Gounod’s opera Faust at the Vienna State Opera (1996). After 2003 with the title role in the opera The Wandering Dutchman and the role of Wotan in the operas Gold of the Rhine, Valkyrie and Siegfried proved himself as an excellent performer of Richard Wagner’s opera music. There are 90 roles in the repertoire of Egil Silinis. Egils Siliņš has participated in the most prestigious music festivals, including the Bregenz, Tanglewood, Savonlinna and Glyndebourne festivals.
From 2019, he is the chairman of the board of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet, at the same time continuing his career as a singer. For example, at the end of March 2023, Egils Siliņš performed in Japan at the New National Theater in Tokyo, where four operas by Jacques Offenbach took part Hoffmann’s stories in performances. Before going to the concert hall Latvia Silins will participate in three Wagners Lohengrin will perform at the Shanghai Opera in China.
Māris Skuja was the chief concertmaster of the Latvian National Opera for 16 years, but since 1991 he has been the concertmaster of the second largest Austrian opera house – the Graz Opera House. From 2001 to 2017, he was the main concertmaster, and from 2002, also the head of the opera studio. The repertoire of Māras Skujas includes more than 90 operas, as well as a significant number of oratorios, cantatas and operettas.
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2023-09-07 09:30:30
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