In Latvia, as the cultural centre of Northern Europe, on 3 July 2025, the third international concert of young opera singers will be held at Dzintari Concert Hall, accompanied by the symphony orchestra conducted by the Chief Conductor of the Latvian National Opera, Mārtiņš Ozoliņš. The concert will feature young opera soloists from around the world who are scholarship holders of the SIAA Foundation from the Principality of Liechtenstein. The first concert in Latvia took place in August 2017 at the Latvian National Opera. Ten soloists participated in the concert, and it was a great success. The second concert was held in June 2023 at Dzintari Concert Hall; the concert was again highly successful.
The name of the charity foundation "Sic itur ad astra” ("That's how we go to the stars") SIAA Foundation perfectly matches its mission - to guide and promote young opera singers, to help them launch the careers, providing all kinds of support in their professional musical development.
In June 2023, seven young soloists performed at Dzintari Concert Hall: Lithuanian baritone Romanas Kudriašovas, Spanish soprano Inma Hidalgo, Slovenian tenor David Jagodic, soprano Cassandra Wyss from Liechtenstein, Serbian bass-baritone Sreten Manojlovic, Italian tenor Valerio Borgioni and Lithuanian mezzo Eglė Wyss (Sidlauskaite). Nowadays, they are already performing on the world’s best opera stages including La Scala and Metropolitan Opera.
On 3 July 2025, the participants of the concert “Young International Opera Stars” at Dzintari Concert Hall, young promising scholarship holders from different countries of the world will delight the audience by performing timeless opera masterpieces - iconic arias by Verdi, Mozart, Bellini, Rossini, Bizet, Donizetti, Puccini, Strauss, and other world opera classics. The names of young vocalists who will take part in the Gala Concert at Dzintari Concert Hall will be announced shortly by the Foundation.
For young opera singers who are convincingly and clearly motivated to move up the opera career ladder, SIAA Foundation helps organise concerts with the participation of world-famous conductors and symphony orchestras in the best concert venues around the world. Concerts and performances by scholarship holders have taken place in La Sala Verdi in the Milan Conservatory (2022), Waidhofen an der Thaya Stadtsaal in Austria (2021) and Malaga's Teatro Cervantes (2022). In 2022, in Korea, a concert was held at the Seongnam Arts Center under the direction of conductor Daniel Agiman. Many scholarship holders of the Foundation continue to delight the audience by performing on the world's leading opera stages. For example, mezzo Eglė Wyss performed the role of Venus in Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser at Tokyo's New National Theatre last year.
The young artists are gifted and inspiring, and at the same time professionals who give concerts in the most famous opera houses around the world. Among the participants are winners of such prestigious opera competitions as Plácido Domingo's Operalia and BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. At the gala, the artists will represent various European opera houses.
For opera and symphonic music enthusiasts, the concert will be an unforgettable musical experience.
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Event organizer –
Baltijas Koncertu Aģentūra.
Phone for inquiries -
29222602.
