Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya who arrived to Riga especially for this performance were given an ovation.
On Saturday Rietumu Bank will hold a ceremonial reception in honour of the jubilee of the famous festival. The open-air reception arranged at the popular national restaurant Lido on Jomas Street (the central street of Jurmala) will be attended by more than 300 guests, among them being Alexander Maslyakov, members of the jury, KVN (The Club of the Happy and Inventive) participants of different periods, honorary guests of the festival, recognised political leaders and entrepreneurs.
The Charity Fund of Rietumu Bank is arranging the event in cooperation with Art Forte Company and Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg).
Rietumu Bank representatives, senior vice-president Ilya Suharenko and Council member Aleksandr Gafin, handed over the collection of picturesque photos made on the Riga seashore in the 1930s and the exclusive payment card “Jurmala” emitted by Rietumu Bank to the Jurmala City Museum, where the presentation took place.
