{"id":11245,"date":"2021-11-16T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/?page_id=11245"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:56:36","slug":"about-us-egils-silins-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/about-us-egils-silins-3\/","title":{"rendered":"About us: Egils Sili\u0146\u01611"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-6ef14e517a5abf3de2038b87ffebd975\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-6ef14e517a5abf3de2038b87ffebd975 .av-section-color-overlay{\nopacity:0.7;\nbackground-color:#eeeeee;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-6ef14e517a5abf3de2038b87ffebd975 main_color avia-section-small avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_layout_row  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll av-section-color-overlay-active container_wrap fullsize'  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av-av_heading-6f542716cf8229e6200f3d390102f4e2 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-7  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >EGILS SILI\u0145\u0160<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-2bd894dbf2e4bf2c4acf98ce4fbf94aa '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\">He was born in L\u012bgatne, in 1961, and attended Sigulda Music School, where he played at the brass band of the school, and the Department of orchestra conductors, Riga College of Cultural Workers. Afterwards he studied at the Music Academy of Latvia, under the direction of the professors Gurijs Antipovs and Leon\u012bds V\u012bgners. At the same time, he sang at the State Academic Choir \u201cLatvija\u201d.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\">In 1988, Egils Sili\u0146\u0161 made his debut at the Latvian National Opera in the role of Mephistopheles at the opera \u201cMephistopheles\u201d by Arrigo Boito. Later on, he became a soloist at Frankfurt Opera (1990\u20131993), Basel Opera (1993\u20131996), Vienna State Opera and Vienna Volksoper (1996\u20132000). He won international recognition by the role of Mephistopheles in the opera \u201cFaust\u201d by Charles Gounod (1996), and the title role in the opera \u201cBoris Godunov\u201d by Modest Mussorgsky at Vienna Volksoper (1998). After 2003 he asserted himself as a well-known performer of opera music by Richard Wagner.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\">Since 2000 Egils Sili\u0146\u0161 is a an opera artist famous in the wide world. He has performed not only on the stages of Milan\u2019s La Scala, New York Metropolitan Opera, and Covent Garden of London, but also on the stages of many other major opera theatres and festiv\u0101ls\u00a0\u2013 in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin, Budapest, Zurich, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Dresden, Glyndebourne, Hamburg, Koln, Leipzig, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Savonlinna, St.Petersburgh, Tokyo, Toronto and Riga. His repertoire includes more than 90\u00a0roles in German, French, Italian and Russian operas, among them: Wotan\/Traveller in the tetralogy Ring of the Nibelungs by Richard Wagner, Klingsor and Amfort in Parsifal, Telramund in Lohengrin, as well as the title role in Fliegender Hollander. Also Jochanaan in Salome by Richard Strauss, Orestes in Electra, Mandryka in Arabella, Pizarro in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven, Mephistopheles in Faust by Charles Gounod, Zuniga and Escamilio in Carmen by George Biset, Sir Giorgio in The Puritans by Vincenzo Bellini, and Rodolf in La Sonnambula, Bazilio in Il Balbiere de Sevilia by Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Scarpia in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Germont in Traviata, Jago in Othello, the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi, Silva in Ernani, and Jean Procida in The Sicilian Vespers, as well as title roles in Yevgeny Onegin by Peter Tchaikovsky, The Demon by Alexander Rubinstein, Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky, and Knyaz Igor by Alexander Borodin. Egils Sili\u0146\u0161 has successfully cooperated with such conductors as Kiril Petrenko, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Philip Jordan and Marek Yanovski.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\">Eg\u012bls Sili\u0146\u0161 is three times the winner of the Latvian Great Music Award (in 1996, 2000 and 2015), but for outstanding meritorious service to Latvia has been decorated with the Order of the Three Stars (in 2008).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-10n4oc-e5d3009a3a9bf261e5e53eb9d12b33da '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-32mi4-2f7511522ae84a122b8e89e260ed751e\">\n.flex_cell.av-32mi4-2f7511522ae84a122b8e89e260ed751e{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-32mi4-2f7511522ae84a122b8e89e260ed751e{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-32mi4-2f7511522ae84a122b8e89e260ed751e av-gridrow-cell av_one_fifth no_margin  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_cell_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id='av-layout-grid-2'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-s1acs-1b9cff783296c19202ed562cfaea2436 entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_layout_row  avia-builder-el-last  grid-row-not-first  container_wrap fullsize'  >\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-89bg-956ae783ca0724e373d122d58c53e114\">\n.flex_cell.av-89bg-956ae783ca0724e373d122d58c53e114{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-89bg-956ae783ca0724e373d122d58c53e114{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-89bg-956ae783ca0724e373d122d58c53e114 av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-12  el_before_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-first '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9ybxw-139e88e61cd12b8465b51104cfdf0138\">\n.flex_cell.av-9ybxw-139e88e61cd12b8465b51104cfdf0138{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-9ybxw-139e88e61cd12b8465b51104cfdf0138{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-9ybxw-139e88e61cd12b8465b51104cfdf0138 av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-last '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11308,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11245\/revisions\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}