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FULL Uguns un Nakts or Fire and Night (Jānis Mediņš) Riga 1996 Jānis Rainis, Jānis Mediņš, Jānis Zirnis, Uldis Leiškalns
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Uguns un Nakts or Fire and Night
- Composer: Jānis Mediņš
- Libretto: Jānis Rainis Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
- Recorded: January 19, 1996
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Jānis Mediņš (October 9, 1890 — March 4, 1966) was a Latvian composer. He was born in Riga. He was a vital force in musical life during the short-lived first independent Latvian republic (1918—40). He almost singlehandly established in his country both the balletic genre – with Mīlas uzvara (‘Love’s Victory’, 1934) – and the operatic with Uguns un nakts (‘Fire and Night’, 1913—19) and Dievi un cilvēki (‘Gods and People’, 1921). It was as a result of multiple invasions of his country that Mediņš left Latvia in 1944, eventually settling for good in Sweden.