On the early morning of August 15, at the age of 65, the former actress of Valmiera Theater, Mudīte Rāka, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away, the representatives of the theater informed.
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The Mudīte family comes from Priekuli in Cēsis region. After graduating from Cēsis State Gymnasium, his love of literature took him to the Latvian State University to study philology. In her free time, Mudīte was engaged in artistic gymnastics, where she got to know her next classmate and her closest theater companion, the National Theater actress Indra Burkovska. The experience gained at the Cēsis Folk Theater attracted her to the theater, and Mudīte entered the Theater Faculty of the Latvian State Conservatory, which she graduated in 1978.
“During her studies, Mudīte was the most conscientious with the most orderly lecture notes. She defended the honor of the conservatory in ski relays. She was very sincere and fair, she was direct and open with her friends and colleagues, she was honest with her opinion. But she kept her deepest pain deep,” says Mudīte. her classmates, Valmiera Theater colleagues Inese Ramute and Januss Johansons.
As one of the 14 young actors of the first course of Valmiera Theater, in 1978 Mudīte became an actress of Valmiera Theater. Played by Leldi Rainis “I Play, Dance” and Lienīte “Love Stronger Than Death”, Varju Anton Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard”. There were also many smaller, but equally finely and sensitively developed roles with different directors: V. Mayakovsky’s “Bathhouse”, K. Saja’s “Clement”, A. Kronin’s “Jupiter laughs”, M. Dishler’s “Kraujeni heirs”.
Not only the best creative collaboration was established with Valentīna Maculēvičs Mudīte, the long-term director of Valmiera Theater, but also a family was established, in which two talented sons grew up – Mečeslavs and Vidvuds, named after both grandparents.
Mudīte played her last role in the production of “Anna Karenina” by director Felix Deich Leo Tolstoy in 1996. After that, she left the theater altogether, and Mudīte started another life. Without theater. However, all her life she was and remained faithful to two passions of her life – literature and theater, passing it on to her students at Valmiera schools and university, where she worked as a teacher for many years. It is thanks to her that many of her students connect their lives with the theater stage or writing.
Januss Johansons: “The last time we met Mudīte was at the funeral of our classmate, her Kristīne Edgars – Valdemārs Karpaksas. A rapid, unexpected and premature divorce …”
Farewell information will be available Valmiera theater page.
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