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Riga has a good tourism potential receiving more and more tourists from all over the world every year. However, we do not stop searching for new attractive parts of the city. Riga creative agency "PR-Līnija" offers residents and guests to have a look at the city from the cinematic point of view, and has initiated a new annual holiday - "Sherlock Holmes Birthday".

Monday, 2012 February 13th, 7 PM
Latvian National opera

The Anniversary of the Herman Braun Foundation
Tango ensemble Sexteto Mayor (Argentinа)

Latin Grammy Award, Premio Konex, Premio Konex de Platino and Premios Carlos Gardel winner
Tango ensemble Sexteto Mayor (Argentinа)

Entrepreneur Baiba Rubesa invites everyone to attend the Burns Supper on 28 January 2012 in Riga. This will be the fifteenth consecutive year that this charity event is being organised by the British Chamber of Commerce in Latvia (BCCL).

"I want to run the Latvian National Opera (LNO), and I have plans for three years," the opera's managing director Andrejs Zagars told LETA.

Ainārs Rubiķis has accepted the position of Music Director at Novosibirsk Opera House - the largest in Russia - from 1 January 2012 for an initial period of three years.

I Musici di Roma (Italy)





Tuesday, 2011 December 13th, 7 PM
Latvian National opera
I Musici di Roma (Italy)
Vivaldi‘s Four Seasons and film music

Arte Association’s Artists’ Residency SUMU offers one- to three-month residencies in 2013 to new media artists, working in the intersection of new technologies and contemporary art.

A large crowd gathered at the Freedom Monument this afternoon to pay tribute to deceased choir conductor Imants Kokars.

We offer you to watch a video, which is made by the British Council in Latvia about master-classes of spoken word, which took place this summer during the festival URBAN POETRY in our exhibition hall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfof6m2nO3M&feature=player_embedded . The next poetry slam will be next week in the 8th of December, 19:00

Legendary Latvian choir conductor Imants Kokars has died.