All on Live performance
Celebrating Barbara Strozzi
Anousha Nazari’s beautiful video-interpretation of Barbara Strozzi’s Eraclito Amoroso.
Theatre Bizarre
An immersive art installation of unprecedented scale summons the mystery of its notorious underground parties. Halloween in extreme.
Loud and passionate
Want to know what happens when a sousaphone becomes the bass, and the guitar the only one to play harmonies? Check out Roni Martin & Kalabalik Brass Band’s latest album.
Dancing a book
The book is by far the best. But what would be the second best way to tell the Alice’s story in the wonderland? A ballet at the Finnish National Opera/Ballet.
Musica Nova 2017
The biannual music festival of contemporary music, Musica Nova, was held in Helsinki 2 – 12 February 2017. A breakthrough of electronics?
Kill Carmen
Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin’s three-penny opera combines traditional flamenco with modern sung poetry, and does it with pertinent fervor.
Performance that defied hi-fi
Sometimes a performance can be so deep-going that the listener wants to save the experience in his/her soul and not hear it again.
Vivaldi goes dance & techno
If there is a Baroque composer whose music adapts to a techno-classical style, it must be Vivaldi, the point well proven by the Finnish contemporary opera group Opera Scala.