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| Composer | Sallinen, Aulis (b. 1935) |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Year | 2016 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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“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.
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The Castle in the Water: a new work for Savonlinna
Savonlinna’s contribution to the centenary has been to commission a new work from the country’s senior operatic composer, Aulis Sallinen. Not an opera per se in this case, but what he describes as a “chronicle for speaker, four singers, orchestra and Olavinlinna”.