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When millions of people suffer the cruelty of the oppressors, we must not remain silent. The voices of opera soloists, choral singers, and orchestral musicians ring loudest and strongest in music, so on 9 May the Latvian National Opera and Ballet invites you to a concert in support of the Ukrainian people, Glory to Ukraine! With this charity concert, the LNOB invites the people of Latvia to continue supporting the Ukrainian victims of war. 

Concert Glory to Ukraine!  is organised in cooperation with the Latvian National Opera Foundation. The organisers and participants of the concert will do their work free of charge, but all the proceeds from the concert tickets will go to support Ukraine through the Ziedot.lv Foundation. When purchasing tickets, the audience is invited to top up the ticket price with a donation of their choice.

The concert Glory to Ukraine!  is produced by musical director Mārtiņš Ozoliņš, stage director Elita Bukovska, and video artist Zane Zelmene. The Latvian National Opera Orchestra, Choir and soloists will also be joined by soloists Liene Kinča, Sonora Vaice, and Egils Siliņš. Choreographer Alexandra Astreina is staging a special performance for the concert, featuring Ukrainian ballerinas Angelina Bosenko, Elina Bidna, and Ivanna Sulima, who currently work with the Latvian National Ballet.

Synopsis

GLORY TO UKRAINE! СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ!

Charity concert in support of Ukraine

at the Latvian National Opera

May 9, 2022

 

Part I 

 

National Anthem of Latvia

Dievs, svētī Latviju!

LNO chorus and LNO orchestra, conductor Mārtiņš Ozoliņš

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National Anthem of Ukraine

Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля

Soloist Pavlo Balakin

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Jānis Mediņš

Prologue to the opera FIRE AND NIGHT

Pāri upei

Soloist Krišjānis Norvelis

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Jānis Mediņš

Spīdola’s aria from opera FIRE AND NIGHT

Es esmu es

Soloist Dana Bramane

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Arvīds Žilinskis

Antiņš’s aria from opera THE GOLDEN HORSE

Sirds kā uguns

Soloist Raimonds Bramanis

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Jānis Kalniņš

Gertrude’s aria from opera HAMLET

Kur vītols pāri upei zarus liec

Soloist Ilona Bagele

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Zigmars Liepiņš

Adam Jakubowsky’s aria from opera THE ROSE OF TURAIDA

Sievietei pār karaspēku vara ir

Soloist Jānis Apeinis

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Ukrainian folk song, arranged by Stanislav Lyudkevich

Ой, співаночки мої

Soloist Jūlija Vasiļjeva

Pianist Ilze Ozoliņa

 

Part II

 

MOIRAS

Choreography by Aleksandra Astreina

Music by Antonio Vivaldi

Soloists Anhelina Bosenko, Elina Bidna un Ivanna Sulyma

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Giuseppe Verdi

Lady Makbeth’s aria from opera MAKBETH

La luce langue

Soloist Liene Kinča

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Giuseppe Verdi

Chorus from opera NABUCCO

Va, pensiero

LNO chorus and LNO orchestra, conductor Mārtiņš Ozoliņš

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Giuseppe Verdi

Duet of Don Carlo and Posa from opera DON CARLO

Dio, che nell’alma infondere

Soloists Artjoms Safronovs and Rihards Mačanovskis

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Giuseppe Verdi

Elena’s Bolero from opera I VESPRI SICILIANI

Merce, dilette amiche

Soloist Sonora Vaice

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FIREBIRD / PAS DE DEUX

Choreography by Marco Goecke to fragments of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet

Soloists Elza Leimane and Antons Freimans

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Umberto Giordano

Gérard’s monologue from opera ANDRE CHÉNIER

Nemico della patria

Soloist Egils Siliņš

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Francis Poulenc

Lidoine’s aria from opera DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES

Mes filles, j’ai desiré de tout mon coeur

Soloist Inga Kalna

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Francis Poulenc

Final scene of opera DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES

Salve Regina

Soloists and LNO chorus

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Jānis Norvilis | Rainis

Mūsu zeme

Soloists and LNO chorus group

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Jānis Mediņš | Vilis Plūdonis

Instrumentation by Romualds Kalsons

Tev mūžam dzīvot, Latvija!

Soloists, LNO chorus and LNO orchestra, conductor Mārtiņš Ozoliņš