Participants:
Marlēna Keine, soprano
Mihail Chulpaev, tenor
Agnese Egliņa, piano
Jānis Ozols, compère

The great opera singers will lead the audience into the love stories from popular operas created by different composers. Here, love does not obey any laws. It swells to a sweet and passionate catharsis, while it also makes you experience sadness, separation, and longing for the ideal. This is vividly revealed in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s subtly psychological masterpiece “Don Juan”; the comic opera “The Bartered Bride” by Bedřich Smetana, which is filled with love alterations; and in Jules Massenet’s
“Werther” – the pearl of French romance, which is based on the tragic love story of the young poet Werther. We will also hear excerpts from the great hits of opera enthusiasts – Giuseppe Verdi’s “Traviata”, which is often referred to as the queen of beauty of all Verdi operas. Elegance, luxury, the pleasures of life, and the short happiness of two lovers against the condemnation of society and the curtain of death…