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Season's First Ballet
My first ballet performance of the season, Horečná-Godoni-Robbins took place yesterday. The ballets were shown in opposite order from the title, which misled me for a while. First was thus Glass Piec...
17.10.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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My third Figaro
The season started with Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Anna Kelo, conducted by Marco Ozbič. The composer is the young and promising W.A. Mozart. Anna Kelo calls Le nozze di Figaro world's best opera...
19.09.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Peer Gynt, and so What?
The ballet Peer Gynt by Heinz Spoerli with music by Edvard Grieg, Brett Dean, Marc-Anthony Turnage at the Finnish National Opera has had diverse response in the media. In the major Helsingin Sanomat t...
25.04.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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La Bohème
I've just come home from the opera through a bright night lit by a fat half moon. What I saw was the new version of La Bohème directed by Katariina Lahti, for a change a traditional one, set in early ...
10.04.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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... Something for Girls
Through wind and sleet I toiled to the tram stop where there was a family of six little girls dressed in pink with parents going to see the balet Beauty and the Beast, as was I. In the opera house the...
21.03.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Jenůfa, and Stuff
This opera season starts with Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček. It is directed by Olivier Tambosi, originally for the Hamburg State Opera. Karita Mattila sings the role of Jenůfa, which she did for the first ti...
31.01.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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From Bits and Pieces, a Whole
In spring 2010 I saw Beneath the Dancing Sky which included Minus 7 by Ohad Naharin. At the time I thought it was entertaining, but nothing more. As part of Deca Dance Helsinki, which consists of frag...
08.11.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Don Pasquale
The season continues with Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale. I was fairly doubtful going there; the reviews had been unenthusiastic, and I remembered the previous performance in the old opera house (n...
11.10.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Disappointing Brothers
The opera & ballet season started for me with Seven Brothers by Marjo Kuusela. The plot of the novel was greatly simplified while the number of people, especially women, was increased, and a compl...
20.09.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Tristan, Isolde, and Flu
Yesterday there was a very fine performance of Tristan and Isolde in the National Opera, the last of five. I was very pleased with every aspect of it, except the opera itself. The music of course is w...
04.06.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Starting again: Balanchine, Forsythe, Kylián
After a longish break caused in part by the problems of Vuodatus since last August, I'll try to write a little about the ballet performance yesterday at the Finnish National Opera named after the ball...
15.03.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Snow Queen
The new full-length classical ballet by Kenneth Greve, The Snow Queen - with music by Tuomas Kantelinen (best known for his film music) - has had excellent reviews, and it was sold out almost immediat...
14.12.2012 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Don Carlos, well, well...
The ambiguous review in Helsingin Sanomat calling the new Don Carlos at the FNO "a weird horror carnival" had apparently led to a half-empty house at yesterday's performance. For the first time in my ...
02.11.2012 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Makropoulos Case - When Perfect is Not Good Enough
I suppose I'll say a couple of words about The Makropoulos Case in Helsinki (which I saw Tuesday last week), composed and written by Leoš Janáček based on Karel Čapek's play in 1923-25. It was a co-pr...
27.09.2012 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Night of the Arts 2012
The Night of the Arts is an annual event of the Helsinki Festival that was arranged for the first time in 1989, and now many towns have a Night of the Arts, even Lahti. Can it be that I have never wri...
24.08.2012 | Kommentteja 0 |
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