I got invited to review Flashdance by Vantaan musiikkiteatteri (“musical theatre of Vantaa”) in Culture House Martinus. I stay faithful to my style and leave the plot summary out, because it’s the review I have to offer:…
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Saturday afternoon matinee in the main foyer of the Opera House offers a treat for the ear and a welcome moment of relaxation, with members of the Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera presenting attractive programme of classical music.
Claude Debussy's dreamy and shimmering Symbolist opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, was last performed at the Finnish National Opera over 60 years ago. Now the enchanting impressionist opera appears again, in a stunningly lush production from Marco Arturo Marell featuring moonlit...
Set in mythical India, La bayadère is one of the masterpieces of 19th-century Russian ballet, a brilliant example of a grand spectacular production with huge crowd scenes, colourful costumes and handsome sets. Nikiya is a bayadère, or temple dancer. She is in love with a warrior...
Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about the dark side of humanity too. Rusalka eventually gains human form, but happiness only lasts for a moment...
Marc Ribaud has choreographed a new interpretation of the 1870 ballet classic Coppélia, transferring the setting to the fantastical world of the famous French filmmaker Georges Méliès. This epic story about the doll maker Coppelius is comedic classical ballet at its finest.
In Count Forelli's kitchen, the kitchen maid Pulmu Kupponen dreams of opening a milk bar of her own, while the butler (former court musician) Taisto Sellovaara incites a mouse to rebellion against the Count's regime. After a storm in a teacup and many other intrigues, we find...
La fanciulla del west Giacomo Puccini During the gold rush in California in 1849, everything was expensive - but human life was cheap. Minnie, living in a world of tough men, has to do all she can to save Dick Johnson from the pursuing sheriff, Jack Rance. The premiere of La...
Julius Caesar Georg Friedrich Händel Passion runs deep when Giulio Cesare arrives in Egypt and encounters the beautiful Cleopatra for the first time. In 1724, the German composer Georg Friedrich Händel fashioned a popular opera around this fateful meeting; his brilliant music...
Nimeni on Sormiradio (My name is Finger Radio) is a foyer ballet featuring the friendship of two very different characters seeking their place in the world. A robot named Finger Radio is lost in the Opera House, and a stiff but friendly maintenance man decides to help it. He is...
Don Quixote is one of the major works in classical ballet - with a Spanish flair. This upbeat version by Patrice Bart is based on the original choreography by Marius Petipa. In a brilliant staging, the Finnish National Ballet transports audiences to Imperial Spain. Don Quixote...
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