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Riga Opera Festival tour
An individual tour 4 days / 3 nights on any of the Festival days: 05-11 June 2012
Every summer the Riga Opera Festival offering fans a chance to relive their favourite scenes...
Day 1
- Arrival in Riga, meeting, transportation to the hotel, check in
- Dinner at the restaurant La Boheme in the beautiful Art Nouveau district
This evening you are invited at La Boheme - a fine dining restaurant maden in elegant Scandinavian style. This is a place to slowly enjoy a meal and atmosphere, made with a grand attention to the smallest details.
- Overnight in Riga
Day 2
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Morning individual Old Riga Town walking tour with your language speaking guide
You will enjoy the beauty of the ancient Hanseatic city and learn about this wonderful historical city, while strolling through the cobble-stone, pictorial streets of the Old Town.
- Lunch at the Preatore restaurant in Jurmala
Today make a choice of International cuisine with a French touch and a wide selection of beverages at the best restaurant of Jurmala 2008.
- Afternoon individual Jurmala sightseeing tour with your language speaking guide
In Jurmala you will discover a combination of charming wooden houses built in the beginning of the last century and modern resort buildings. Jurmala's natural treasures - the mild climate, sea, healthy air and 33 km long white sand beach will give you a good emotions for a long time.
- Evening visit of festival performance at Latvian National Opera
One of the great evenings in Latvian National Opera awaits you.
- Overnight in Riga
Day 3
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Morning individual Sigulda & Gauja National Park sightseeing tour with your language speaking guide
Today you will visit Sigulda, which is one of the most picturesque towns in Latvia in the Gauja River valley, situated in the Gauja National Park and is known as the most popular tourist and leisure destination.
- Lunch at New Castle restaurant in Sigulda
More than 10 years restaurant Pilsmuiza is housed in New Sigulda Castle. For the restaurant guests is offered international cuisine in interesting folk theme interior.
- Evening visit of festival performance at Latvian National Opera
One of the great evenings in Latvian National Opera awaits you.
- Overnight in Riga
Day 4
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Check out
- Transfer to the International Riga airport
We are looking forward to see you at Riga Opera Festival again next year!
Price per person:
Depends on your group size (starting with 1 person). To receive our special offer for Riga Opera festival tour please contact us info@grandbaltics.com.
Included:
- 3 nights accommodation at Gutenbergs Hotel 4**** or similar in Riga Old Town/Riga City Centre;
- Breakfasts at the hotel;
- Transfers as per program;
- Sightseeing tours with your language speaking guide as per program;
- VAT
Optional:
- Dinner at the restaurant La Boheme in the beautiful Art Nouveau district;
- Lunch at the Preatore restaurant in Jurmala;
- Lunch at New Castle restaurant in Sigulda;
- Riga Opera Festival tickets;
- SPA procedures
Riga Opera Festival events:
05.06.2012 at 19:00 War Sum Up
In collaboration with with the Hotel Pro Forma (Denmark) and Latvian Radio Choir.
WAR SUM UP is a manga opera about the nature of war, about ghosts, superheroes and post traumatic stress disorder. Follow the Warrior, the Spy and the Soldier through their transformation into a world of light and dark, battle and death. From man to machine, to statue, ghost and fantasy heroine. War Sum Up is sung in Japanese with surtitles in English and Latvian.
06.06.2012 at 19:00 Eugene Onegin
When the shy, introvert Tatyana first meets the aloof Onegin, she believes he is the man she always dreamed of. She pours out her love for him in a passionate letter. But he coldly rejects her. Many years later, they meet again. Both have changed, and now the tabeles are turned... Based on Pushkin's immortal novel, Tchaikovsky created one of the most emotional opera scores ever.
07.06.2012 at 19:00 Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Count Almaviva enlists the help of the witty barber Figaro to come up with and ingenious plan to meet Rosina, the girl he loves. Doctor Bartolo, Rosina's ward, keeps her confined in his house, and Almaviva and Figaro have to overcome many obstacles until the Count wins his beloved. Il Barbiere di Siviglia is not only one of the most brilliant comic operas ever composed, but also one of the most popular ones.
Director of the perfomance Aik Karapetian: "There is no doubt that Rossini's Barber of Seville is a great challenge for any director, especially, as it is the case with me, if it is a director's first encounter with the art form of opera. The Barber is not only one of the most performed of Rossini's works, it is one of the most popular operas ever, so most people know this piece and probably even have an idea of how it should be done. I tried to find some new angle, something about it that had never been explored before -- all the time being fully aware of the fact that comedy is one of the trickiest and most difficult genres in terms of directing.
My decision was to turn the Barber's humor into something darker and more cynical. That is why I chose the French Revolution as a background for telling the story."
08.06.2012 at 19:00 Mazeppe
Mazeppa, based on Alexander Pushkin's poem Poltava, is a blood-thirsty tale of crazy love, ultimate lust for power, political intrigues, dreadful crimes, and merciless executions. At the centre of the historical and personal drama - the Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks Ivan Mazeppa, a very prosperous nobleman Kochubey and his daughter Mariya. In the fight with Mazeppa, Kochubey will have to lose everything: his friends, daughter, riches, honour and life...
A coproduction with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
09.06.2012 at 19:00 Luci A Di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor's plot is loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, published in 1819. The fragile Lucia is caught in the feud between two noble Scottish families. Her dreams about happiness and love fall to pieces in the desperate race for power and fortune... Lucia di Lammermoor is Gaetano Donizzeti's most celebrated opera.
10.06.2012 at 15:00 Götterdämmerung
In Götterdämmerung, the work's essential conflict between the longing for love and the greed for power - which Wagner developed and deepened during the course of the Ring's previous operas Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried - comes to a shattering culmination. The hero Siegfried unknowingly betrays his bride Brünnhilde. She swears vengeance - and sets off a chain of tragic events that brings the world to an end. Götterdämmerung concludes the Latvian National Opera's ambitious project to present Wagner's monumental tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen for the first time in over one hundred years in Riga. In 2013, the 200th anniversary of the composer's birthday, we will perform the complete cycle.
12.06.2012 at 19:00 Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Count Almaviva enlists the help of the witty barber Figaro to come up with and ingenious plan to meet Rosina, the girl he loves. Doctor Bartolo, Rosina's ward, keeps her confined in his house, and Almaviva and Figaro have to overcome many obstacles until the Count wins his beloved. Il Barbiere di Siviglia is not only one of the most brilliant comic operas ever composed, but also one of the most popular ones.
Director of the perfomance Aik Karapetian: "There is no doubt that Rossini's Barber of Seville is a great challenge for any director, especially, as it is the case with me, if it is a director's first encounter with the art form of opera. The Barber is not only one of the most performed of Rossini's works, it is one of the most popular operas ever, so most people know this piece and probably even have an idea of how it should be done. I tried to find some new angle, something about it that had never been explored before -- all the time being fully aware of the fact that comedy is one of the trickiest and most difficult genres in terms of directing.
My decision was to turn the Barber's humor into something darker and more cynical. That is why I chose the French Revolution as a background for telling the story."
13.06.2012 at 19:00 Eugene Onegin
When the shy, introvert Tatyana first meets the aloof Onegin, she believes he is the man she always dreamed of. She pours out her love for him in a passionate letter. But he coldly rejects her. Many years later, they meet again. Both have changed, and now the tabeles are turned... Based on Pushkin's immortal novel, Tchaikovsky created one of the most emotional opera scores ever.
14.06.2012 at 19:00 The ROF concert. Penderecki's Polish requiem
14 June is one the saddest days in Latvian history; to commemorate the date, requiem by a remarkable composer is traditionally performed at the Riga Opera Festival Concert. This time it will be A Polish Requiem by outstanding contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
15.06.2012 at 19:00 Mazeppe
Mazeppa, based on Alexander Pushkin's poem Poltava, is a blood-thirsty tale of crazy love, ultimate lust for power, political intrigues, dreadful crimes, and merciless executions. At the centre of the historical and personal drama - the Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks Ivan Mazeppa, a very prosperous nobleman Kochubey and his daughter Mariya. In the fight with Mazeppa, Kochubey will have to lose everything: his friends, daughter, riches, honour and life...
A coproduction with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
16.06.2012 at 19:00 Luci A Di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor's plot is loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, published in 1819. The fragile Lucia is caught in the feud between two noble Scottish families. Her dreams about happiness and love fall to pieces in the desperate race for power and fortune... Lucia di Lammermoor is Gaetano Donizzeti's most celebrated opera.
17.06.2012 at 15:00 Götterdämmerung
In Götterdämmerung, the work's essential conflict between the longing for love and the greed for power - which Wagner developed and deepened during the course of the Ring's previous operas Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried - comes to a shattering culmination. The hero Siegfried unknowingly betrays his bride Brünnhilde. She swears vengeance - and sets off a chain of tragic events that brings the world to an end. Götterdämmerung concludes the Latvian National Opera's ambitious project to present Wagner's monumental tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen for the first time in over one hundred years in Riga. In 2013, the 200th anniversary of the composer's birthday, we will perform the complete cycle.
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