{"id":5493,"date":"2019-03-09T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/about-us-inga-kalna\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:04:43","slug":"about-us-inga-kalna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/about-us-inga-kalna\/","title":{"rendered":"About us: Inga Kalna"},"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'  ><div 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She has graduated from J\u0101zeps V\u012btols Latvian Academy of Music, finishing the Class of Musicology (1994) and Vocal class of Ludmila Ryabova\u00a0\u2013 Brauna, professor of the Department of Vocal Art (1997), as well as the Opera Faculty of the Royal Academy of Music, Great Britain, where she was coached by Joy Mammen (1999). Her vocal mastery was also further facilitated by Irina Gavrilovici in Vienna.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">At the beginning of her career Inga Kalna was an opera soloist at Latvian National Opera (1995\u20131999), later on a soloist at Hamburg State Opera (1999\u20132007). As a freelancer she has also sung at Paris National Opera, Viennese State Opera, La Scala Theatre in Milan, Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Opera of the Netherlands, Flemish Opera, Opera Houses of Tampere, Lausanne, Toulouse, and at the Salzburg Festival.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The wide repertoire of the singer embraces the role of Fiorilla at The Turk in Italy by Gioachino Antonio Rossini, the roles of Pamina and the first lady at The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the role of Donna Anna at Mozart\u2019s Don Juan, the role of Fiordiligi at Mozart\u2019s Cosi fan Tutte, Electra at Mozart\u2019s Idomenea, Mimi at La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini, Gilda at\u00a0 Rigoletto by Giuzeppe Verdi, Desdemona at Verdi\u2019s Othello, Violetta at Verdi\u2019s Traviata, Leonora at Verdi\u2019s Il Trovatore, Adina at L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore by Gaetano Donizetti, Ksenya at Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky, and the title-roles at Donizetti\u2019s Lucia di Lammermoor and Maria Stuart, Bellini\u2019s Norma, Handel\u2019s Agrippina, Rodelinda and Alcina.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In addition, her concert repertoire includes passions by Johann Sebastian Bach, masses and requiems by Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Gounod, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms and other composers. She has also performed Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, and parts in Symphony No 4 by Gustav Mahler.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Inga Kalna has closely cooperated with such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Marc Jacobs, Marc Minkovski, Rene Jacobs, Alfred Eschwe, Ingo Metzmacher, Stefan Soltesz, Simone Young, Andris Nelsons and Ottavio Dantone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"lv-LV\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Inga Kalna is the five-time winner of the Latvian Great Music Award (1995, 1998, 2002, 2014, 2016), winner of the Goldberg Operatic Prize (Great Britain, 1997) and the first prize winner of Bruce Millar-Gulliver Memorial Trust Award Competition (Great Britain, 1999).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-w9m5q-1f677a3319118da2be6d0ca30a13de09\">\n.flex_cell.av-w9m5q-1f677a3319118da2be6d0ca30a13de09{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-w9m5q-1f677a3319118da2be6d0ca30a13de09{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-w9m5q-1f677a3319118da2be6d0ca30a13de09 av-gridrow-cell av_one_fifth no_margin  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_cell_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-2'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-p9eom-f5e8dac9d925926bafb6f11c9be9193e entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-10  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-ixodq-41d9e5fdbecae5861a531e2593dac653\">\n.flex_cell.av-ixodq-41d9e5fdbecae5861a531e2593dac653{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-ixodq-41d9e5fdbecae5861a531e2593dac653{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-ixodq-41d9e5fdbecae5861a531e2593dac653 av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-11  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-6m05q-0cd3857f3eaca1e3507d2830fc46dd0d\">\n.flex_cell.av-6m05q-0cd3857f3eaca1e3507d2830fc46dd0d{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-6m05q-0cd3857f3eaca1e3507d2830fc46dd0d{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-6m05q-0cd3857f3eaca1e3507d2830fc46dd0d av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-last '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"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-5493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5493","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5493\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaberscompetition.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}