“This will be the beginning of our desire to restore the John Saaber Opera Festival, which took place at his memorial museum at the time of the singer’s death on his birthday. The old kiln. There is an open-air stage and Zaber oak. The Latvian National Opera drove there, “says Jānis Kļaviņš, a producer from Madonna, Madonna, a singer. (Strong Production), which is organizing the upcoming concert together with Three Latvian tenors – Nauri Puntuli, Miervaldi Jenči and Guntars Ruņģis, who together with like-minded people founded the Jānis Zābers Foundation in the late 1990s, organized two large-scale Jānis Zābers tenor festivals on the Madona stage (1999 and 2000) and established a boys’ vocalist competition Aiviekste nightingales.
The gold repertoire of Jānis Zābers has been chosen for the program of the upcoming concert, starting with the songs of Latvian classics Emīls Dārziņš and Alfreds Kalniņš and ending with Italian, Neapolitan songs. Jānis Zābers’ business card will not be forgotten either – Arvīds Žilinska Antiņš’s aria from the opera Golden horse. The Jānis Zābers Vocal Competition will also take part in the concert Aiviekste nightingales two-time winner, well-known singer Dainis Skutelis and great musicians – pianist Māris Žagars, accordionist Inita Āboliņa and guitarist Mārcis Auziņš. The concert is supported by Lubāna municipality, Madona municipality and relatives of Jānis Zābers, memorial museum The old kiln makers.
Nature had given the best Latvian tenor of all time Jānis Zābers a unique timbre of voice and especially fine musicality. During his short life, the singer reached many of the peaks of his profession and experienced a true triumph of his talent. Zabers was loved by thousands of listeners both in Latvia and abroad. Jānis Zābers had many world stages open, he was the only Latvian singer who studied at the famous Milan Opera House during the Soviet years. La Scala. Unfortunately, his life after a serious illness shrank only at the age of 37, leaving behind well-played roles in opera, songs sung in concerts and a wonderful voice in sound recordings. Daiga Mazvērsīte describes the life path of the legendary opera soloist in a book In a word. Jānis Zābers (2010).
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