The evening of August 26 will be very special in the Ola Foundation cultural space, as the charming and popular star of world opera music, Latvian soprano Kristīne Opolais, who will perform together with the well-known pianist Agnes Egliņa, will give a beautiful solo concert.
The evening's program will include famous arias from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Francesco Chile, Antonin Dvořák, romantic piano miniatures, including Felix Mendelssohn's "Songs without words" and the compositions of the Baltic German Nikolai von Wilm.
For the first time, the two artists performed with a joint concert program in 2020 in China, in the largest concert hall in Shanghai. This performance was remembered by the artists with the loud and passionate ovations of the audience, where the audience greeted each of Kristine's songs with great cheers. It was a truly unforgettable evening!
Kristine Opolais: "I can't sing at all without real emotions. The sound I produce with my voice is only possible through my emotions. A beautiful voice alone means nothing to me. When I sing, I open my soul - my pain, my joy, my fear.''
In 2023, several concerts are planned for Kristīne Opolais together with Agnese Egliņa - in Austria, in the Haydn Hall of the Esterházi Palace, in Hungary - in the Budapest Opera House, as well as a concert tour to South America is planned for the month of November.
Therefore, it will be a special pleasure and honor to listen to this concert program here in Latvia, in the special atmosphere of the Ola Foundation cultural space.
Kristine Opolais has gained fame as an excellent singing actress and is in demand all over the world. Audiences have had the opportunity to enjoy her performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Milan's Teatro alla Scala, Zurich Opera House, London's Royal Opera House and elsewhere. The artist has collaborated with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Andris Nelsons, Fabio Luizzi and Kirill Petrenko. Her performance has been recorded on countless DVDs, as well as shown live in cinemas around the world as part of the Metropolis Opera's Live in HD project. The artist is a two-time laureate of the Latvian Grand Music Prize (2006, 2011).
The concert starts at 19:00, guests are invited to come from 18:15 for a glass of wine from the Barents restaurant and to view two current exhibitions.
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