Aleksis Kivi
The opera deals with episodes in the life of Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi.
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The opera deals with episodes in the life of Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi.
Subtitled tragedia buffa, the Finnish chamber opera draws on the story of two elderly sisters, daughters of a family that fled the Russian Revolution, who withdrew from Finnish society and died in their home.
After Rasputin comforts the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei, Tsarina Alexandra sees him as a healer and his influence grows. Felix Yusupov and allies plot to kill him, while Rasputin’s power and behavior provoke fear and hostility. He survives a stabbing and poisoning before being shot by the conspirators; Alix foresees the Romanovs’ fate.
Rautavaara adapts O. Henry’s Christmas story, relocating it from 1900 New York to his childhood neighborhood of Kallio in Helsinki during the 1930s. The entry does not describe the dramatic events.
Near the end of his life, Thomas, the 13th-century bishop of Finland, looks back on his past and his early advocacy of Finnish nationhood.
In a Saint-Rémy hospital, Van Gogh recalls childhood, his brother Theo, Maria Hoornik, and fellow painter Paul Gauguin. Rejected by Maria and critics, he cuts off his ear; in the epilogue, he presents a painting and ends by affirming life.
The opera deals with episodes in the life of Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi.
Subtitled tragedia buffa, the Finnish chamber opera draws on the story of two elderly sisters, daughters of a family that fled the Russian Revolution, who withdrew from Finnish society and died in their home.
After Rasputin comforts the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei, Tsarina Alexandra sees him as a healer and his influence grows. Felix Yusupov and allies plot to kill him, while Rasputin’s power and behavior provoke fear and hostility. He survives a stabbing and poisoning before being shot by the conspirators; Alix foresees the Romanovs’ fate.
Rautavaara adapts O. Henry’s Christmas story, relocating it from 1900 New York to his childhood neighborhood of Kallio in Helsinki during the 1930s. The entry does not describe the dramatic events.
Near the end of his life, Thomas, the 13th-century bishop of Finland, looks back on his past and his early advocacy of Finnish nationhood.
In a Saint-Rémy hospital, Van Gogh recalls childhood, his brother Theo, Maria Hoornik, and fellow painter Paul Gauguin. Rejected by Maria and critics, he cuts off his ear; in the epilogue, he presents a painting and ends by affirming life.