(Photo: Agnese Zeltiņa | Files.fm.) I’m not generally given to elaborating on opera plots; preferring for the audience to discover them for themselves, even where the outline of the tale is fairly well known. Alas, I feel somewhat compelled to at least superficially proffer some brief abridgement of “Salome,” if only to illustrate and accentuate the bizarre, outlandish and frequently {…}
OperaVision will present Kalniņš’ “I Played, I Danced” live from the Latvian National Opera and Ballet on Jan. 31, 2020. The opera, which was composed in 1977, will star Raimonds Bramanis, Marlēna Keine, Jānis Apeinis, Krišjānis Norvelis, Rihards Mačanovskis, Ilona Bagele, Rinalds Kandalincevs, Juris Ādamsons, Laura Grecka, Evija Martinsone, and Andžella Goba, among others. Andžella Goba will conduct a production {…}
The concert version of Puccini’s “La Rondine” from the Latvian National Opera and Ballet will be streamed live via Operavision on Jan. 11, 2019. The Puccini work will feature Dinara Alieva in the role of Magda with John Irvin as her lover Ruggero. Other cast members include Inga Šļubovska-Kancēviča, Pavel Petrov, Krišjānis Norvelis, and Marlēna Keine, among others. Janis Liepins {…}
Opera Vision will start streaming a production of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” live from the Latvian National Opera and Ballet on Sept. 28, 2018. Wagner’s first masterwork will feature Egils Silins as the titular character with Vida Mikneviciute as his star-crossed lover Senta and Ain Anger as her father Daland. Interpreting the role of Erik will be Corby Welch with {…}