title: Andrejs Žagars
text: # Andrejs Žagars
  
  Andrejs Žagars (16 October 1958 – 26 February 2019) was a Latvian actor, opera director, entrepreneur and politician. He was head of the Latvian National Opera from 1996 to 2013. His brother Juris Žagars also is an actor and since 2019 director of Riga Daile Theater.
  
  