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Riga Opera Festival 2027 is the main event of the year with the participation of world classical music stars.
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Even in the world's best concert halls and opera houses, the listening conditions can vary greatly, and some seats are better than others. Sometimes nearby seats have very different viewing and listening conditions.
Usually, these seats are sold out soon and available for early bookers only. We guarantee that you will receive full-view seats only.
Detailed information about the 2026 Festival will be added later.
From 4 to 20 June 2026, the Riga Opera Festival invites audiences to the Latvian National Opera for a celebration of opera and ballet, bringing together new productions, acclaimed works from the company’s repertoire and a festive closing gala. The programme offers an opportunity to discover the artistic range of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet, with performances by its resident artists and distinguished international guest soloists.
The festival opens on 4 June with a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, conducted by Arvo Volmer and featuring Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov as Rodolfo. The opera returns on 5 June and 17 June, with different casts. Other operatic highlights include the double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci on 10 June, featuring Adam Smith and Aleksandrs Antoņenko, and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore on 12 June, with Annija Kristiāna Ādamsone and Matteo Ivan Rašić.
The ballet programme spans a variety of styles and periods. Edward Clug’s Peer Gynt, set to music by Edvard Grieg, opens the dance offerings on 6 June. On 7 June, Jerome Robbins’s The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody) is paired with Alexander Ekman’s Cacti. The programme continues with Casanova, choreographed by Kenneth Tindall to music by Kerry Muzzey, Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty, and Juris Karlsons’s Antonija #Silmači, choreographed by Aivars Leimanis.
The final opera performances bring two major works to the stage: Bizet’s Carmen on 18 June, with Zanda Švēde, Dumitru Mîțu and Christian Van Horn, and Verdi’s Aida on 19 June, featuring Tatiana Trenogina, Justina Gringytė and Irakli Kakhidze. The festival concludes on 20 June with the traditional Riga Opera Festival Gala Concert, conducted by Mārtiņš Ozoliņš.
With its combination of opera premieres, established repertoire and contrasting ballet productions, the festival offers a concentrated view of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet’s work, making Riga a compelling destination for opera and dance enthusiasts at the beginning of summer.
About the Riga Opera Festival
Riga Opera Festival has been held since 1998. Each year, he completes the season of the Latvian National Opera, inviting viewers to look back at the brightest musical events of this opera house over the past year.
The creator of the Riga Festival is the Director General of the Latvian National Opera Andrei агagars.
The program is formed from the premieres of last season with the addition of the best performances of previous seasons. During the existence of the festival, about twenty operas were shown: Aida, Nabucco, Eugene Onegin, The Flying Dutchman, Salome, Don Carlos, Bohemia, Masquerade Ball, The Magic Flute and other The Riga Festival is traditionally attended by many invited vocalists and conductors, including from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters.
In 2002, the program of the Latvian festival was amended: for the first time, a foreign participant took part in the festival The collective - Gidon Kremer brought to Riga a concert performance of the tango opera by Astor Piazolla "Maria de Buenos Aires".
In 2003, the Bolshoi Theater showed two of its performances on the stage of the Latvian National Theater as part of the festival. In 2004, the Moscow Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko showed in Riga “Betrothal in a Monastery” by Prokofiev and “Madame Butterfly” by Puccini.
The festival is the largest such event in Eastern Europe, it is attended by about 10 thousand spectators.
