(Credit: © Ilkka Saastamoinen) Sebastian Fagerlund‘s new opera, based on Karl Ove Knausgård’s novel “Morgenstjernen” in Swedish or “The Morning Star” in English, inhabits that rare territory where literature, music, and visual spectacle converge to create something genuinely original — unsettling and beautiful at the same time. Gunilla Hemming’s libretto doesn’t so much adapt Knausgård’s labyrinthine 666-page narrative as distill {…}
(Photos: Sami Mannerheimo) The Fiskars Summer Festival, which runs from July 29 to August 8, 2025, will feature an Open House showcasing its young artists. The program, slated for August 1, 2025, will feature Iris Candelaria as she takes on arias from “Mitridate, Re di Ponto,” “Le Nozze di Figaro,” and “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” The Finnish soprano has performed {…}
The Savonlinna Opera Festival has announced its 2022 festival, which will feature five operas and several concerts. First up will be a new production of Verdi’s “Aida” by director Phillipp Himmelmann who asserts that “’Aida’ must be retold, because the world has changed irrevocably.” The opera will star Adina Aaron and Helena Juntunen sharing the title role alongside Gaston Rivero, {…}