Yesterday, the Dzintari Concert Hall hosted a romantic and sophisticated closing concert of the Jurmala Festival, where we enjoyed the outstanding performance of two world-famous Latvian musicians – opera singer Alexander Antonenko and pianist Reinis Zariņš. The concert featured compositions by the late genius of Romanticism, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, which are united by strong passion, beauty and a fascinating sense of time.
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Over the past ten years, Alexander Antonenko has conquered the world’s most famous opera houses and concert stages, singing almost 30 tenor roles. Since 2004, he has become the most internationally acclaimed Latvian tenor, making successful debuts at the Berlin Opera, the Dresden Semperoper, the Oslo and Stockholm Royal Opera, the Geneva, Paris, Rome and Munich Opera Houses, the Vienna State Opera, the Covent Garden in London and the New York Metropolitan. . Conducted by conductor Ricardo Muti, Antonenko made his brilliant debut as Otello at the prestigious Salzburg Festival in 2008. A year later, he made his huge debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, where Antonenko now returns regularly, playing leading tenor roles.
Reinis Zariņš is a master of deeply thought-out interpretations, a brilliant soloist and a skilled chamber musician and author of conceptual inter-art projects. R. Zariņš made his debut as a soloist with the orchestra at the age of ten and later won awards in eleven international pianist competitions. R. Zariņš is a co-author of the choreographic performance “Seasons”, one of the participants of “Trio Palladio” and a three-time winner of the Latvian Grand Music Prize (2011, 2013, 2015). He has participated in many prestigious festivals: the Lucerne Festival, the Kremerata Baltica Festival, the Bath, Norfolk and Nova Scotia International Music Festivals, the MasterWorks Festival and the Holland Music Sessions Festival. R. Zariņš has played in the world’s best concert halls – Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New York Carnegie Center Veil Hall, London Vigmore Hall, St. Petersburg Glazunov Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall.
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