Riga Opera Festival June 8–19, 2011

The Riga Opera Festival (ROF) in 2011 offers the overview of the Latvian National Opera’s most successful productions. Along with some of the pearls of the LNO’s repertoire, „the golden repertoire” (Puccini’s Turandot and Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Aida, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer), this summer’s program includes the new productions of the season 2010/2011 – Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (cond. Modestas Pitrenas, dir. Aik Karapetian), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (cond. Mikhail Tatarnikov, dir. Andrejs Žagars), and Latvian composer Bruno Skulte’s The Heiress of Vilkači (cond. Andrejs Jansons and Aigars Meri, dir. Ināra Slucka), as well as some the most interesting productions of previous seasons (Puccini’s Il Trittico, Mozart’s Don Giovanni) and the Riga Opera Festival concert – Verdi’s Requiem.

GOLDEN REPERTOIRE:

• 8 Wed Verdi AIDA 19:00
• 9 Thu Puccini TURANDOT 19:00
• 10 Fri Puccini MADAMA BUTTERFLY 19:00
• 11 Sat Wagner DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER 19:00
• 14 Tue Riga Opera Festival Concert. Verdi’s Requiem 19:00

NEW PRODUCTIONS

• 15 Wed Skulte THE HEIRESS OF VILKAČI NEW PRODUCTION 19:00
• 16 Thu Rossini IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA NEW PRODUCTION 19:00
• 17 Fri Tchaikovsky EUGENE ONEGIN NEW PRODUCTION 19:00
• 18 Sat Puccini IL TRITTICO (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) 19:00
• 19 Sun Mozart DON GIOVANNI 19:00

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