Opera Valentina

The first opera by the internationally renowned Latvian composer Arturs Maskats, Valentina, celebrates a cultural legend film historian Valentīna Freimane. The opera reveals dramatic pages from the national chronicle between the years 1939 and 1944 with remarkable mementos of Latvian history and culture for the varied ethnic groups that live in Latvia. Valentīna Freimanes childhood was divided between Riga and Berlin, where her father worked as a lawyer for UFA film studios, while her mother was an ench