18. July, 2026
Closing concerts of the Early Music Festival at Rundāle Palace. An annual event featuring a special daytime concert for children and an evening classical music concert in the palace garden – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Musical performance for children “Nightingale”
In the very heart of summer, the garden of Rundāle Palace will host the musical performance for children The Nightingale, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. The family concert for children and the creative workshops held beforehand have already become an integral part of the Early Music Festival tradition. Surrounded by beautiful roses and inspired by the music of Italian masters, young listeners will meet the fairy tale characters – the Young Fisherman and the River Fairy, the King, the Chamberlain, and the Nightingale. Skilled performers of early music, beloved soloists, little nightingales from the Riga Dome Choir School, and dancers will bring the story to life in splendid costumes.
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Antonio Vivaldi “The Four Seasons”
Once again this year, the Early Music Festival will culminate with Antonio Vivaldi’s violin concerto cycle “The Seasons” (Le quattro stagioni) – one of the most popular opuses of classical music, which has been performed and interpreted countless times worldwide. The four violin concertos comprising the cycle were first published in 1725 in a collection titled “The Contest Between Harmony and Invention” (Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione). And indeed, there is no lack of harmony or invention in this music, for Vivaldi took great pleasure in depicting scenes from nature and everyday life, and in writing verbal transcriptions of them in the score.
A visit to the Rundāle Palace garden is included in the concert ticket price.
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