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The “Ring” cycle by Richard Wagner marked the bicentenary of the composer in Riga, the city he used to live and work for few years between 1837-39, bringing back the Latvian capital to the Wagnerian geography with contemporary opera productions staged between 2006 and 2013. The aim of the paper is to summarize the impact of the “Ring” project to the operatic culture of Latvia, to the international career development of young Latvian artists and cultural branding of Latvia, Riga and Latvians, showing the progressin...