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SavonlinnaCarmen
Bizet: Carmen
Matti Hyökki; Marianne Mörck; Anna Kontek; Ann-Mari Anttila; Tuija Knihtilä; Amadi Lagha
SavonlinnaKing Roger
Szymanowski: Król Roger
Ville Matvejeff; Krystian Lada; Didzis Jaunzems; Karol Kozłowski; Fredrik Zetterström; Helena Juntunen
SavonlinnaLa traviata
Verdi: La traviata
Mariusz Treliński; Boris Kudlička; Gosia Baczyńska; Marjukka Tepponen; Antonio Poli
SavonlinnaIl barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Der Barbier von Sevilla)
Kari Heiskanen; Antti Mattila; Teemu Muurimäki; Annalisa Stroppa; Tuomas Katajala
SavonlinnaKarita Mattila – the grand festive gala
Respighi, Verdi, Strauss R., Busoni, Ponchielli, Wagner
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra; Hannu Lintu; Karita Mattila
SavonlinnaWerther
Massenet: Werther
Kalle Kuusava; Fabrizio Melano; Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc; Manuela Paladin Šabanović; Aljaž Farasin; Ivana Srbljan
SavonlinnaGiulio Cesare
Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, (Julius Caesar in Ägypten) HWV 17
Ville Matvejeff; Marin Blažević; Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc; Dalibor Laginja; Sandra Dekanić; Anamarija Knego; Dubravka Šeparović Mušović
Neue Kritikenmehr...
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.
Kullervo at the Savonlinna Festival
Kari Heiskanen's questionable production of Sallinen's bleak opera is revived with a superb cast under the nuanced baton of Hannu Lintu.
“Amid the black water": a sensational new work from Aulis Sallinen at the Savonlinna Festival
The Castle in the Water, Sallinen's new “chronicle”, is a new work of innovative beauty. Tragic, comic and epic, in seventy-five minutes it tells the history of Olavinlinna and gives a snap-shot of those connected to it.
Savonlinna's Die Entführung aus dem Serail
The opening production of the 2017 Savonlinna Opera Festival had an optimistic message, strongly delivered by a cast led by the exceptional Konstanze of Hulkar Sabirova.
A Finnish swan song at Savonlinna
Matti Salminen and conductor Leif Segerstam come together, probably for the last time, to give us an excellent evening's opera which touched the heart of Boris Godunov – a Finnish swan song as potent as anything penned by Sibelius.
