Nordic Highlights 1/2012
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Purge (Puhdistus) premiere on 20 April
Jüri Reinvere’s opera Puhdistus (Purge) will be premiered at the Finnish National Opera on 20 April 2012. The novel of the same name by Sofi Oksanen has been a tremendous international success, both as a novel and as a play. Addressing painful moments in Estonia’s past, it can soon be heard for the first time as an opera with star soprano Helena Juntunen in the leading role. The Stage Director is Tiina Puumalainen. According to Reinvere, his poetic idiom creates an interesting contrast with Oksanen’s violent drama led by two extremely powerful female characters.
Read more about the opera and the novel
Go to Juri Reinvere's blog
Read the press release
Ilkka KuusistoOperas represented by Fennica Gehrman: Miehen kylkiluu |
Mikko HeiniöList of piano concertos: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 (1981) Genom kvällen (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4, 1986) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 (1989) Hermes (Piano Concerto No. 6, 1994) Khora (Piano Concerto No. 7, 2001) Kuukonsertto (Moon Concerto), Piano Concerto No. 8 (2008) Nonno (Piano Concerto No. 9, 2011) |