Fantastic music and a powerful stage production!
Opera Society Taite ry and Chamber Orchestra Avanti! will bring two short operas composed by Väinö Raition to the stage of the National Opera’s Alminsal: The Proposal of Väinämöinen from 1934-1936 will be performed for the first time in orchestrated form and The King of Lydia is a domestic operatic curiosity from 1937. Also included are excerpts fromRaition’s Asaria and Kruununha’s Syrup Factory.The music is fantastic and the staging is powerful.
The roles are played by e.g.
Annami Hylkilä, soprano
Juha Hostikka, baritone
Markus Nieminen, baritone
Ilkka Hämäläinen, tenor
Anu Hostikka, soprano
Tanja Kauppinen-Savijoki, soprano
Riikka Rantanen, mezzo-soprano
Performances at the Alminsal of the Finnish National Opera 29.9., 30.9. and 1.10.2017.
Fri 29.9.2017 at 18:00, premiere Buy tickets here
Sat 30.9.2017 at 18:00 Buy tickets here
Su 1.10.2017 at 15:00 Buy tickets here
Total duration approx. 1 h, no intermission
Normal price 36 €, pensioners 32 €, unemployed and students 18 €, prices include delivery charges. Buy tickets here
Music by Väinö Raitio
Text by Eino Leino
Music Direction by Tuomas Hannikainen
Direction by Johanna Freundlich
Set and costumes by Mark Väisänen
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Painting: light shades, detail, 2013, Urho Kähkönen
