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Almost all the singers, orchestra and conductor were Italian, but it was local soprano Elīna Šimkus and the Latvian Radio Choir who sang Purcell’s magnum opus as if to the English manner born.

In the tiny Baltic state of Latvia, music loving locals are hell-bent on going for Baroque.