Riga Christmas Gala

Celebrate the festive season at Riga Christmas Gala, 25 and 26 December, Kipsala Hall, featuring a guitar virtuoso Kaspars Zemītis, the popular ethno music group “Tautumeitas”, amazing opera singers Jolanta Strikaite and Mihails Čulpajevs! 

 The programme includes popular melodies by Latvian songwriters Raimonds Pauls, Imants Kalniņš, Jānis Strazds, Ainars Virga, well-known pieces by foreign composers like All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey, Time to Say Goodbye by Francesco Sartori arranged by K. Zemītis, G. Kalniņš, A. Sējāns and R. Bērtiņš, as well as favourite classical pieces – Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D for organ and orchestra, Mykola Leontovych's Shchedryk based on a traditional Ukrainian folk chant and known as the soundtrack to a lot of Christmas movies, including “Home Alone”, and traditional Christmas carols.

 Riga Christmas Gala also features the Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences and Valmiera Culture Centre Youth Choir “Skan”, the Carnikava mixed choir “Vēja balss”, the Liepāja Music, Art and Design School boys choir, the Valmiera Music School Girl Choir “SolLaRe”, the Christmas Chamber Orchestra and a backing band. Conductors – Rūdolfs Bērtiņš and Jurģis Cābulis.

 Concert director – Rūdolfs Bērtiņš, director and stage designer – Reinis Suhanovs.

 Riga Christmas Gala starts at 17.00 on 25 December; 14.00 on 26 December.