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A Carmen Ballet
It really has been a while since last I wrote. Yesterday I saw the ballet Carmen. The production is hired from the Norwegian National Ballet, and in the local newspaper the critic Jukka O. Miettinen a...
28.02.2020 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Light Entertainment
Again three short ballets, this time called Triple Bill (in Finnish puzzlingly Tripla as the new Mall of Tripla is soon to be opened in Pasila district), with ballets by Wayne McGregor, George Balanch...
11.10.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Prequel
The long-awaited and much discussed in advance Der Ring des Nibelungen has started with Das Rheingold. I was interested to see how this new version, unexpectedly directed by Anna Kelo instead of Kari ...
11.09.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Poor Sylvia
After many years, a good ballet at last, Sylvia by Léo Delibes, with John Neumeier's choreography (and beautiful lightning) from the year 1997. However, I wonder if Neumeier's angular movements will l...
15.03.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Ice
I saw the new opera Ice by Jaakko Kuusisto yesterday. The librettist Juhani Koivisto says it was "a story that wanted to become an opera," but I would rather have said that it was "a story that never ...
08.02.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Another New Cinderella
In 2011 there was a new Cinderella ballet in Helsinki. The same year in Birmingham there was another new Cinderella, by David Bintley to Sergei Prokofiev's music, with sets and costumes by Emma Ryot. ...
30.11.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Tosca, the Second Gap Filled
At last I filled a major gap in my education, one which had actually troubled me: I saw Tosca, a new version by Christof Loy. It may sound incredible, but I had failed to see the older one although it...
14.09.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Gap in Education Filled
I had looked forward to filling a gap in my education this year - at last a chance to see Il Trovatore! But then the reviews started appearing, and I became apprehensive. They were less than enthusias...
20.04.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Giselle!
I saw my third Giselle yesterday. The first one was in the old opera house in the 1980s, the second one in this one twenty years ago. Mostly my memories of them consist of an intense boredom. Since l...
02.03.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Poor Stupid Butterfly
This winter season starts with an early example of Western self-flagellation (a form of inverted racism, I think), Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (c. 1904), a co-production of Finnish National Op...
09.02.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Opera?
Yesterday was the last performance of Höstsonaten - Autumn Sonata, composed by Sebastian Fagerlund, based on the film by Ingmar Bergman. The reviews had been good, but my expectations were not high. I...
06.10.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
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An Evening with Lady of the Camellias
Here we go again: it's autumn, and yesterday I saw Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias to Frédéric Chopin's music, originally made for Florida Ballet in 1994. However, this performance was based on...
15.09.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Saariaho's Shadow Plays
Well, at least in the first part of Only the sound Remains by Kaija Saariaho,, Always Strong, shadows played an essential role, although less in the latter, Feather Mantle. Both are based on Noh plays...
28.04.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Another Onegin
I thought it was just a few years ago that I saw Eugene Onegin at the National Opera, but apparently almost 11 years have passed. The new Eugene Onegin directed by Marco Arturo Marelli that I saw yest...
07.04.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Russian Lady (of Mtsensk)
I've been otherwise occupied, but now I have time for a few words about the Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (by Dmitri Shostakovich of course) directed by Ole Anders Tandberg, originally a co-pr...
16.02.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
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