Live Eventsmehr...
SavonlinnaNabucco
Verdi: Nabucco
Iván López Reynoso; Rodula Gaitanou; takis; Jake Wiltshire; Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
SavonlinnaMadama Butterfly
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Pier Giorgio Morandi; Henry Akina; Dean Shibuya; Anne Namba; Ilkka Paloniemi; Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
SavonlinnaThe Marriage of Figaro
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Die Hochzeit des Figaro)
Andrea Sanguineti; Johannes Erath; Katrin Connan; Birgit Wentsch; Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra; Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
Neue Kritikenmehr...
Turandot at Savonlinna Opera Festival: a riddle inside an enigma
Pet Halmen’s 2003 production of Puccini's unfinished final opera places asks more riddles than Turandot's quiz questions to her would-be suitors.
King of the Castle: Verdi’s Macbeth in Savonlinna
Olavinlinna, also known as St Olaf's Castle, provides an atmospheric setting for Verdi's take on Shakespeare's “Scottish play”.
Satan, sex, blood and redemption: Faust in Finland
Auguin conducted as if he really believes in this evergreen work, which was wonderful to hear in the composer’s rather overlooked anniversary year.
Staging, spectacle, singing: three-card trick at Savonlinna
This was more stadium rock than stuffy opera house, lighting as ‘metaphor made real’ as the lovers were – literally – star-struck, blinded by love.
Butterfly's castle: Puccini soars at Savonlinna
There is a reason that Butterfly has the highest blub factor in the repertory, for it is not only for Cio-Cio-San that we weep, but for ourselves.
McVicar 's Rigoletto travels to the Savonlinna Festival
David McVicar's production may divide audiences with its no holds barred approach to the debauchery of the court of Mantua, but is well worth seeing for the Gilda of Tuuli Takala.