The performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" on September 7th will be conducted by the notable Spanish maestro Pedro Halffter, whom the Latvian audience already got to know in 2019 when he conducted the opera "La Bohème."

The main roles in the performance on September 7th will be sung by Tatjana Trenogina, Andris Ludvigs, Ilona Bagele, and Jānis Apeinis.

Pedro Halffter has conducted on many stages of great prestige, such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Philharmonie in Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, among others. Pedro Halffter is also a composer who has gained international recognition, with his works being performed at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, Dortmund Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall in New York, and elsewhere.He has worked in Vienna, Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Beijing, Moscow, Tokyo, Shanghai, Salzburg, Munich, Barcelona, Essen, Mannheim and Toulouse conducting orchestras such as London Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, New Japan Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Dresdner Philharmonie, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra Strasbourg Philharmonic, Orchester Symphonique de Montreal, San Antonio Symphony, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, among others.