DVD Video, Mikko Franck (conductor)
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Linkola: Robin Hood
Ville Rusanen (Robin Hood), Mari Palo (Marian), Matti Salminen (Sheriff), Päivi Nisula (Sheriff’s Mother), Jyrki Anttila (Gisborne), Melis Jaatinen (Jamila), Niall Chorell (Will Scarlet), Koit Soasepp (Little John), Aki Alamikkotervo (Friar Tuck), Hannu Forsberg (Much the Miller), Anna-Lisa Jakobsson...
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Special offer. Sallinen: The Red Line (Punainen Viiva), Op. 46
Jorma Hynninen (Topi) & Päivi Nisula (Riika)
Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Finnish National Opera Chorus & Tsuumi Dance Company, Mikko Franck (conductor) & Pekka Milonoff (stage director)
With musical intelligence and dramatic insight he projects a convincing mix of fortitude, desperation and helplessness...[Nisula's] edgy dramatic soprano is combined with first-rate acting skills...Franck... —
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Aleksis Kivi
Jorma Hynninen (Aleksis Kivi), Janne Reinikainen (August Ahlqvist), Riikka Rantanen (Charlotta), Pauliina Linnosaari (Hilda), Ville Rusanen (Young Alexis) & Tobias Zilliacus (J.L. Runeberg)
Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Mikko Franck (conductor) & Pekka Milonoff (stage director)
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The Finnish National Opera staging is top-notch, with opulent, authentically period-looking costumes and sets, and wholly believable acting. …the neo-Romantic language Rautavaara has evolved... —
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Special offer. Linkola: Robin Hood
Ville Rusanen (Robin Hood), Mari Palo (Marian), Matti Salminen (Sheriff), Päivi Nisula (Sheriff’s Mother), Jyrki Anttila (Gisborne), Melis Jaatinen (Jamila), Niall Chorell (Will Scarlet), Koit Soasepp (Little John), Aki Alamikkotervo (Friar Tuck), Hannu Forsberg (Much the Miller), Anna-Lisa Jakobsson...
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Special offer. Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12
Klaus Florian Vogt (Paul), Camilla Nylund (Marietta), Markus Eiche (Frank / Fritz), Sari Nordqvist (Brigitta), Kirsti Valve (Marie), Kaisa Ranta (Juliette), Melis Jaatinen (Lucienne), Per-Håkan Precht (Victorin), Juha Riihimäki (Count Albert) & Antti Nieminen (Gaston)
The Finnish National...
Holten's staging for the Finnish National Opera is inventive - sometimes startlingly so - but doesn't overload the narrative with imposed extra concerpts. He allows the drama...to shine...[Vogt's]... —
