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Aleksis Kivi
A performance of the new opera by Einojuhani Rautavaara based on the life of Finland's first national writer that proved to be the hit of this year's Savonlinna Opera Festival.
Several of Rautavaara's pieces, like Cantus Arcticus and Angel of Light, are achieving cult status, and in this opera he writes continuously grateful vocal lines. It portrays Kivi's decline into alcoholism and schizophrenia in music of consoling tenderness. Sung in Finnish.
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra, conductor Markus Lehtinen

Contributors

Unknown:
Aleksis Kivi
Unknown:
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Unknown:
Cantus Arcticus
Conductor:
Markus Lehtinen
Aleksis:
Km Jorma Hynninen(baritone)
Aleksis (youth):
Hans Lydman(baritone)
Charlotta:
Eeva-Uisa Sarinen(mezzo)
Hilda:
Rikka Hakola(soprano)
Mikko Vilkastus:
Lasse Virtanen(tenor)
Uncle Sakeri:
Jaako Hietikko(bass)
August Ahlqvist:
Lasse Poysti(spoken)
JL Runeberg:
Markus Groth(spoken)
Source: Radio Times

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