At the height of a Latvian summer, with its intoxicating flowers, warm sea, and sunshine, you are invited to delve into the wonderful world of opera! After a lengthy pause, the Latvian National Opera ...

They're young, they're Latvian, and together they are turning their tiny Baltic nation into a musical superpower. As a new opera season approaches, Latvian musicians are set to continue their ...

A series of Latvian National Opera performances kicks off a week-long engagement in Tallinn on January 18 while the Estonia Theatre's company is to be found performing in Riga. Opera and ballet are ...

Dmitri Shostakovich completed his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1934 at the age of 28. It was hugely successful in Russia and abroad, but in 1936 the opera vanished abruptly after it displeased ...

A third of Latvia’s culture budget goes on music education and a new festival aims to galvanise national identity In the UK it is almost obligatory for a culture minister never to have attended an ...