Festival: Savonlinna Opera Festival

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.

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Olavinlinna, also known as St Olaf's Castle, provides an atmospheric setting for Verdi's take on Shakespeare's “Scottish play”.

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Auguin conducted as if he really believes in this evergreen work, which was wonderful to hear in the composer’s rather overlooked anniversary year.

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Olavinlinna Castle, Jul 14, 17, 21, 24

Verdi: Nabucco

Iván López Reynoso; Rodula Gaitanou; takis; Jake Wiltshire; Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra

Olavinlinna Castle, Jul 15, 18, 23

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Pier Giorgio Morandi; Henry Akina; Dean Shibuya; Anne Namba; Ilkka Paloniemi; Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra

Olavinlinna Castle, Jul 16, 20, 22, 25

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Andrea Sanguineti; Johannes Erath; Katrin Connan; Birgit Wentsch; Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra; Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir

Olavinlinna Castle, Jul 27, 28, 30, 31

Verdi: La traviata

Aivis Greters; Silvia Paoli; Gothenburg Opera; Emanuele Sinisi; Nika Campisi; Fiammetta Baldiserri; Gothenburg Opera Orchestra

Olavinlinna Castle, Jul 29, Aug 01

Bellini: Norma

Riccardo Frizza; Gothenburg Opera Orchestra; Gothenburg Opera Chorus; Lisette Oropesa; Ann-Kristin Jones