Bass-baritone RIHARDS MAČANOVSKIS is a solo voice at the Latvian National Opera since 2003. In 2013, he received the Paul Sakss Award and was nominated for the Grand Music Award in 2013 for his outstanding performance of Peter Tchaikovsky’s romances with pianist Mārtiņš Zilberts. The singer’s repertoire includes Don Basil’s role in the opera Barber of Seville, Collin in Bohemian, Escamillo in Carmen, Fasolt in The Rhine Gold, Leporello in Don Juan, the title role in Eugene Onegin, Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhauser, Valentin and Wagner in Faust, President in The Immured, Ādams Jakubovskis in The Rose of Turaida, etc. Rihards Machanovskis has also performed several times with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. At the closing concert of the Riga Festival 2012, he played the Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi along with the outstanding singers Elīna Garanča, Michele Crider and Josep Kan. The artist has performed in many places in Latvia, Moscow and Aix-en-Provence, and toured to Bergen, Dalhall, Bydgoszcz (Poland), Macao and Tallinn with the Latvian National Opera (LNO) staff.