RIGA - Thanks to debts that have ballooned to 1.76 million lats ($3 million), the Latvian National Opera announced that it may be forced to suspend performances before the end of the year.At a news conference Sept. 7, Indra Lukina, the opera's acting director, said there is no way the opera can repay its debt to the Latvian government, which has been accumulating for two years. In addition, she said 600 opera employees have yet to draw their wages for last month.Already, several planned new productions for this season, which opens Sept. 17, have been scrapped. Only a production of Prokofiev...
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