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Egils Siliņš, the Glossary

Egils Siliņš is a Latvian bass-baritone.^[1]

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20th-century Latvian male opera singers
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Aleko (Rachmaninoff)

Aleko (Алеко) is the first of three completed operas by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Frank Davis (2 February 1944 – 20 April 2024) was an English conductor.

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Andris Nelsons

Andris Nelsons (born 18 November 1978) is a Latvian conductor.

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Anja Harteros

Anja Harteros (born 23 July 1972) is a German soprano.

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Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Anton Grigoryevich Rubinshteyn) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

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Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito (born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele.

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Axel Köhler

Axel Köhler (born 1960 in Schwarzenberg, Saxony, East Germany) is a German countertenor and opera director.

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Bass-baritone

A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. Egils Siliņš and bass-baritone are bass-baritones.

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Bavarian State Opera

The Bavarian State Opera is a German opera company based in Munich.

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Bavarian State Orchestra

The Bavarian State Orchestra (italic) is the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany.

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The Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.

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Berlin State Opera

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden (State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany.

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Boris Godunov (opera)

Boris Godunov (Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881).

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Bregenzer Festspiele

Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz in Vorarlberg (Austria).

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.

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Chorégies d'Orange

The Chorégies d'Orange is a summer opera festival held each August in Orange located about 21 kilometres north of Avignon in southern France.

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Christian Thielemann

Christian Thielemann (born 1 April 1959) is a German conductor.

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Christoph von Dohnányi

Christoph von Dohnányi (born 8 September 1929) is a German conductor.

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Christopher Ventris

Christopher Ventris, born 1965, in London, is a British tenor.

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Claus Guth

Claus Guth (born 1964) is a German theatre director, focused on opera.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Competizione dell' Opera

The Competizione dell'Opera is an international singing competition formerly based in Germany for singers specializing in Italian opera.

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Damiano Michieletto

Damiano Michieletto (born 1975) is an Italian stage director especially known for opera.

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Daniele Gatti

Daniele Gatti (born 6 November 1961) is an Italian conductor.

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David Alden

David Alden (born 1949 in New York City) is a prolific theater and film director known for his post-modernist settings of opera.

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David Daniels (countertenor)

David Daniels (born March 12, 1966) is an American countertenor.

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David Zinman

David Zinman (born July 9, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American conductor and violinist.

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Deborah York

Deborah York, born 1964 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, is a classical soprano in concert and opera, and a teacher and conductor.

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Der fliegende Holländer

(The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner.

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Der Ring des Nibelungen

(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon (DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram.

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Die Frau ohne Schatten

(The Woman without a Shadow), Op.

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Ernani

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

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Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi (born 17 January 1959) is an Italian conductor.

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Faust (opera)

Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One.

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Francesc Viñas

Francesc Viñas i Dordal (27 March 1863 – 14 July 1933) was a Spanish operatic tenor.

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Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (Генна́дий Никола́евич Рожде́ственский; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer and pedagogue.

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Georg Zeppenfeld

Georg Zeppenfeld (born 1970) is a German operatic bass.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.

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Grand Music Award

Great Music Award (Lielā mūzikas balva), is the highest prize awarded by the Latvian state in the field of music.

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Harry Bicket

Harry Alexander Clarence Bicket (born 1961) is a British conductor, harpsichordist and organist.

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Harry Kupfer

Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer (12 August 1935 – 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic.

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Helmut Deutsch

Helmut Erich Deutsch (born 24 December 1945) is an Austrian classical pianist, specialising in chamber music and lieder accompaniment.

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I puritani

(The Puritans) is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini.

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International Singing Competition of Toulouse

The International Singing Competition of Toulouse is an international classical singing competition run by the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, France.

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James Conlon

James Conlon (born March 18, 1950) is an American conductor.

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Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music

Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija), formerly the Riga Conservatory, is a higher education establishment of music at 1 Barona Street, Riga, Latvia.

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John Daszak

John Daszak is a British operatic tenor, who made his debut with The Royal Opera in 1996 and performed across Europe.

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José Cura

José Luis Victor Cura Gómez (born 5 December 1962) is an Argentine operatic tenor, conductor, director, scenographer and photographer known for intense and original interpretations of opera characters, notably Otello in Verdi’s Otello, Samson in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, Canio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Stiffelio in Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio and many others.

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Kazushi Ōno

(born 1960) is a Japanese conductor.

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Kirill Petrenko

Kirill Garrievich Petrenko (Кирилл Гарриевич Петренко, Latin script: Kirill Garrievič Petrenko; born 11 February 1972) is a Russian-Austrian conductor.

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La Monnaie

The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (italic,; italic; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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La sonnambula

La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.

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Latvian National Opera

The Latvian National Opera and Ballet (LNOB) is an opera house and opera company at Aspazijas boulevard 3 in Riga.

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Līgatne

Līgatne (Ligat) is a town in Līgatne Parish, Cēsis Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia.

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Les vêpres siciliennes

Les vêpres siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers) is a grand opera in five acts by the Italian romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi set to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier from their work Le duc d'Albe of 1838.

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Lied

In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.

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Linda di Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix is an operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin (in German), WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.

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Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States.

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Marc Minkowski

Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works.

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Marcello Viotti

Marcello Viotti (29 June 195416 February 2005) was a Swiss classical music conductor, best known for opera.

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Marek Janowski

Marek Janowski (born 18 February 1939 in Warsaw) is a Polish-born German conductor..

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Mariss Jansons

Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons (14 January 1943 – 1 December 2019) was a Latvian conductor, best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss, and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich.

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Mefistofele

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue and five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he was librettist only).

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Neeme Järvi

Neeme Järvi (born 7 June 1937) is an Estonian American conductor.

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances.

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Noëmi Nadelmann

Noëmi Nadelmann (born 6 March 1962) is a Swiss soprano with a wide repertoire, ranging from Baroque opera to contemporary works.

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Olga Borodina

Olga Vladimirovna Borodina (born 29 July 1963, in Leningrad) as RussiaProfile.org is a leading mezzo-soprano, known for her roles in Russian operas at her home company, the Mariinsky Theatre, and for her international performing and recording career in a varied repertoire.

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Oper Frankfurt

The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt.

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Order of the Three Stars

Order of the Three Stars (Triju Zvaigžņu ordenis) is the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia.

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ORF (broadcaster)

italic (lit.: 'Austrian Broadcasting'; ORF) is an Austrian national public broadcaster. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on pay-TV and via terrestrial overspill since the 1980s.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.

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Parsifal

Parsifal (WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.

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Philippe Jordan

Philippe Jordan (born 18 October 1974) is a Swiss conductor and pianist.

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Piotr Beczała

Piotr Beczała (Polish pronunciation); born 28 December 1966) is a Polish operatic tenor with an international career based primarily in Europe and the United States. He has performed in the world's leading opera houses including Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Royal Opera House, Semperoper, Carnegie Hall, Teatro Real, Deutsche Oper Berlin and is particularly known for his portrayals of characters from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egils_Siliņš

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Egils Siliņš, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century Latvian male opera singers

21st-century Latvian male opera singers

Bass-baritones

Latvian Academy of Music alumni

References