The start of the 2024/2025 season will be celebrated with a Gala concert, featuring performances by favourite local opera and ballet soloists. Audiences will be given a preview of the forthcoming season’s productions.
The first part of the concert will feature performances of fragments from last year's new productions, danced to the accompaniment of the Latvian National Opera Orchestra and conducted by Mārtiņš Ozoliņš and Farhads Stade. These will include excerpts from choreographer Frederick Ashton's legendary ballet La Fille Mal Gardée (soloists Elza Leimane, Viktors Seiko, and Andris Pudāns) and Latvian choreographer Raimonds Martinovs' ballet The Jungle Book (soloists Ilana Puhova, Nataļja Lipska, Donats Rudzītis, Finnian Patrick Hepting). The concert will particularly highlight dancers who have recently made outstanding debuts in leading roles – Jūlija Brauere and Darius Florian Katana in the ballet Giselle, Annija Kopštāle in At the Blue Danube, Jolanta Lubēja and Kārlis Cīrulis in Don Quixote. Elza Leimane's original choreography Blooming will be danced by Krista Štrausa. The ballet segment will conclude with excerpts from Carmina Burana, performed by ballet soloists Alise Prudāne-Spridzāne, Sabīne Strokša, Kirils Baiduks, Antons Freimans, Aeden William Conefrey, Robert Nae, Aleksandrs Osadčijs, Germans Ševčenko, and opera soloists Inga Šļubovska-Kancēviča and Rinalds Kandalincevs.
The second part of the concert will be devoted to opera. Under the musical direction of Mārtiņš Ozoliņš, music from this season's new productions, Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann and Richard Strauss' Salome, will be performed. Additionally, the concert will include excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth, which will return to the repertoire in January, as well as music from operas by Giacomo Puccini and Francesco Cilea. Alongside opera stars Giorgio Berrugi and Egils Siliņš, the second part of the concert will feature Latvian National Opera soloists Jūlija Vasiļjeva, Tatjana Trenogina, Mihails Čuļpajevs, and Jānis Apeinis. The concert will also include performances by the younger generation of singers: sopranos Annija Kristiāna Ādamsone and Etīna Emīlija Saulīte will perform solo arias on the Latvian National Opera stage for the first time, while the audience has already become acquainted with young baritone Daniils Pogoriless in the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni.
The main sponsor of this concert is Citadele Bank, which has made it possible to invite a special guest – the outstanding Italian tenor Giorgio Berrugi, one of the finest tenors of his generation, who has been hailed as the successor to Plácido Domingo.
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