FULL Uguns un Nakts or Fire and Night (Jānis Mediņš) Riga 1996 Solveiga Raja, Lilija Greidāne, Aleksandrs Poļakovs, Sergejs Martinovs

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: 1996
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Solveiga Raja, Lilija Greidāne, Aleksandrs Poļakovs, Sergejs Martinovs, Aivars Krancmanis, Kārlis Zariņš, Andris Blaumanis, Kārlis Miesnieks, Karmena Radovska, Nauris Puntulis, Ansis Sauka, Oļegs Upmanis, Ivars Krastiņš, Viesturs Rijnieks
• Conductor: Aleksandrs Viļumanis  
• Orchestra: Latvijas Nacionālā opera un orķestris  
• Chorus: Latvijas Nacionālā opera koris u  
• Ballet: Latvijas Nacionālā opera un balets  
• Stage Director: Alvis Hermanis  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Latvian TV  
• Date Published: 1996  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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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.