19.03 Savonlinna Opera Festival 2017 - Aulis Sallisen Castle in water
Chronicle narrator, four singers, orchestra and Olavinlinna. Based on the Lassi Nummen collection of poems castle in the water. - Conductor Ville Matvejeff. The concert execution design, Kari Heiskanen. The Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra. The narrator - Jukka-Pekka Palo. Tiina-Maija Koskela, soprano, Tuija Knihtilä, mezzo-soprano, Jussi Myllys, tenor, and Tommi Hakala, baritone. - Recorded at the premiere of the opera in Olavinlinna Castle 8.7. The book and its proposal to discuss the conductor Kari Kropsu, opera singer Petri Lindroos and Outi Paananen. Olaf's castle was built in the Middle Ages to secure the strategically important Savo region. During its history the castle has undergone numerous changes of power, arms clashing, and the cannons thunder. Savonlinna Opera event subscription title Castle water about the colorful steps Olavinlinna and the sub-region, a more forward-looking manner. Composition least Aulis Sallinen characterized by the following: 'This is a chronicle narrator, four singers, orchestra and Savonlinna.' 'The work is based on the Lassi Nummen poem collection Castle water. Aulis Sallinen has chosen Lassi Nummen poem two text motoiksi the whole work: MOTTO 1 '' A few thousand knights and men is never a bad idea, a pair of supporting the fortress and enough gunpowder and cannons, they are as clarify the thoughts of the negotiations, will commas and points to the right place. '' MOTTO 2 '' Today the castle is the old man sitting on a cliff around which time has stopped. As the power of the king abandoned before the steep, sullen and jealous. What if the old man suddenly raises his head, squints her eyes and asks: Who are you? Where can I find where to find the information, Finnish? ''
