This world-class artist has performed at major opera houses such as the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Paris National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Royal London Opera, Milan’s La Scala and many, many more. Already on April 30, she will be seen again at the Metropolitan Opera, where Giacomo Puccini will play the lead role in Turandot.
Together with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Gintars Rinkevičs, the Ukrainian soprano performed fragments of operas by Italian master of melodies Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Maskanji,
The concert was opened by the National Anthem of Ukraine, but at the end the singer thrilled the audience by performing a cappella Ukrainian folk song.
On March 10, the Star Festival also saw outstanding performances by British musicians. The last of the 16 strings of Ludwig van Beethoven, the string quartet no.
Imants Resnis, the former artistic director of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, once started the Liepāja International Star Festival in 1993 as the International Piano Festival. More than 200 pianists from all over the world have performed at the festival.
Since 2016, when the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra housed the concert hall “Lielais dzintars”, the festival has been reborn in a wider format, attracting both pianists and outstanding singers and virtuosos of other instruments, and now the names of the festival stars such as Miša Maiskis, Gidons Kremers, “Carion Quintet”, Michel Pipokinja, Alexander Antonenko and many others.
