The premiere was made this spring by Theater Hagen.
Savonlinna The Opera Festival brings Outi Tarkiainen opera A Room of One’s Own To Finland. The premiere was in May at Theater Hagen, which is the Visiting Opera Group in Savonlinna in the summer of 2023.
Tarkiainen’s opera will be performed in Olavinlinna as part of a package of two dense operas. The other opera of the evening is Bartókin single screen Duke of the Blue Beard Castledirected by the director of Theater Hagen Francis Hüsers.
“The presentation of new Finnish operas is a matter of the heart for us,” says the festival director Jan Strandholm says to HS.
The previous big new Finnish work on the main stage of the opera festival in Olavinlinna was Aulis Sallinen’s water in 2017.
“It’s a tremendous thing. I am especially pleased that Theater Hagen will come to Savonlinna with all its might, ie the opera will be performed in the same way as at the internationally acclaimed opera festival in Savonlinna, Germany, ”Tarkiainen tells HS.
Tarkiainen had found the subject by chance in 2014 while spending the winter in Berlin. Tarkiainen grabbed the bookshelf Virginia Woolfin A Room of One’s Own (Own roomsuom. Kirsti Simonsuuri), a classic work in feminist literature from 1929.
“It was a stopping reading experience. I realized that I had waded through the classics of literature but passed Austen and Woolf thinking that they were somehow inferior or lighter literature, ”Tarkiainen said in May. In an interview with HS.
Theater Hagen also brings a musical to the opera festival Fiddler on the Roof.
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