The Rhinegold According Salonen – Music & Talks

The auditorium in the Nordic House will August 24th live transmit ‘The Rhinegold According to Salonen’. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Finnish National Opera will perform Wagner’s The Rhinegold.

The Nordic House will August 24th and 25th live transmit from The Baltic Sea Festival, both transmissions will be shown in English in The Nordic House’s auditorium with free entrance.

August 25th in Icelandic time

14:00 – 14:45 – Speeches from Riga’s National Library, Latvia
15:00 – 18:29 – Concert from Berwaldhallen “Rheingold”, Finland’s National Opera conducted Esa Pekka Salonen.

About the Baltic Sea Festival

The annual Baltic Sea Festival for classical music wants to create a better environment and a brighter future for the Baltic Sea region.

The Baltic Sea Festival is an international music festival that was founded in 2003 with the aim of using the platform of classical music to invite stakeholders to cross-border conversations about creating a sustainable future for the Baltic Sea region.

Program of the Day

The second day of the Baltic Sea Festival Music & Talks revolves around the value of water.

In ‘The Rhinegold according to Salonen’, master conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Finnish National Opera perform Wagner’s The Rhinegold, in which the river gives life to all who live close to it. But at the bottom of the river rests the enchanted Rhinegold that, in the wrong hands, starts a disastrous chain of events that brings about the end of the world.

The concert will also be Esa-Pekka Salonen’s very last opera performance. More information can be found through the link below

https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/nar-ringen-ar-over-slutar-esa-pekka-salonen-dirigera-opera-helt/?fbclid=IwAR1E3Z0MlXj8UiWmU-MDoCwZpI-Oh9oF4pesmHk7a4eJeGtxqey24CoZxNQ

Talks of the day

The evening’s conversation is from Riga, and the guests are super communicator Dagnija Lejiņa, who strives to connect people by building purpose driven communities and sailor Māris Gailis, who, having sailed around the world, has been Latvia’s prime minister, but is now a culture entrepreneur and a Wagner expert.

More information can be found in the links below:
www.balticseafestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/859125041133303/
https://www.facebook.com/BalticSeaFest/