About the last performance of “Kaupėnas”, crises and society’s short memory. Interview with Siegfried Muktupávela – Culture – Lifestyle – Click

Rock opera “Kaupäen, my darling!” “life” has lasted more than 20 years. Back in the early 2000s, in the Liepāja theater, the audience had the unique opportunity to see the true and felt Kaupēnas of the singer Mārtiņš Freimaņas, the other Kaupēnas, Ivars Stonins, was also a masterful actor next to him. He has been living and working abroad for 20 years and has left the theater altogether. TVNET met with the performer of the important role of the Poet in the play, the popular musician Siegfrieds Muktupāvelas, who has devoted more than 20 years to his Poet, also in the latest version of the rock opera by Jānis Lūsēns and Māras Zālīte. A poet, this is his lifelong role, the musician admits. On August 12, the audience will have the opportunity to live with the magnificent rock opera for the last time, and this time it will be performed in the open air, on the stage of the ruins of Sigulda. Then that’s all. About the show, hometown Sigulda and the darkest manifestations of our society – in conversation with Siegfrieds Muktupävela.

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