Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

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A versatile program consisting of pieces for female choir by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Bengt Johansson and Knut Nystedt among others. The commissioned piece ‘Klage’ (R.M. Rilke) for mezzo-soprano and female choir by Ulf Långbacka will also have its premiere performance this evening.

Erica Back, soloist
Tuula Hällström, piano
Hanna Kronqvist, conductor
Eviva-kören, female choir

Operetta by Jaques Offenbach

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The Finnish-Swedish student choirs Lyran and Akademen’s annual Christmas Concert.

Erica Back, soloist
Kari Turunen and Jutta Seppinen, conductors
Akademiska Damkören Lyran, female choir
Akademiska Sångföreningen, male choir

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Premiere performance of the commissioned piece ‘Missa Silvestris’ for mezzo-soprano, male choir and organ by Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas.

Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Kari Turunen, conductor
Akademiska Sångföreningen, choir

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The final concert of Vaasa Baroque Festival anno 2018!

Program:
Magnificat in D major
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Katariina Heikkilä, mezzo-soprano
Leif Aruhn-Solén, tenor
Aarne Pelkonen, baritone

Kajsa Dahlbäck, conductor
Kreeta-Maria Kentala, concert master
Vaasa City Orchestra
Vaasa Baroque Ensemble

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Arias and duets from G.F. Händel’s most beloved operas.

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Aapo Häkkinen, conductor
Parbaroque’s Orchestra

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Songs by Berg, Sibelius, Kuula, Gothoni and Merikanto
Piano music by Julius Schulhoff

Erica Back, mezzosporaano
Tuula Hällström, piano
Satu Paavola, piano

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Music by Debussy and Fauré

Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Mikael Helasvuo, flute
Laura Vikman, violin
Jussi Seppänen, cello
Kiril Kozlovsky, piano

Pellinge Music Festival, Finland

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe
NN, Méphisto

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Songs by Oskar Merikanto and Jean Sibelius

Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Folke Gräsbeck, piano

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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The winners of the singing competition in Kangasniemi through the years.

Riikka Hakola, soprano
Sirkka Parviainen, soprano
Sirkka Lamminen, soprano
Mia Heikkinen, soprano
Pauliina Linnosaari, soprano
Miina-Liisa Värelä, soprano,
Anu Ontronen, mezzo-soprano
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Maiju Vaahtoluoto, mezzo-soprano
Iida Antola, soprano
Tuula Hällström, piano
Hans-Otto Ehrström, piano
 

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Tales of travel and journeys - physical, metaphysical, psychological and emotional - are interwoven to explore some of the most profound aspects of human nature. The program features the Finnish premiere of Australian composer Andrew Ford's 'In Transit' for piano and speaker. The work is a collection of short movements that combine the composer’s observations, thoughts and fragments of overheard conversations that have occurred during his travels in Australia, Finland the UK and the USA. Originally composed for pianist and narrator, this often humorous and poignant work is performed here in a version for speaking pianist. Having become increasingly interested in the ways in which the spoken word can enrich music and vice versa, Aura Go has compiled her own arrangement of selections from Oscar Wilde’s powerful and harrowing letter De Profundis and music of Sibelius, Sitsky, Crumb and Rzewski. She is then joined by mezzo-soprano Erica Back for Vaughan Williams’ timeless cycle, 'Songs of Travel', to texts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Music by Ford, Sitsky, Crumb, Rzewski, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams. Words by Ford, Wilde and Stevenson.

Aura Go, speaking pianist
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano

Beethoven: Egmont Ouverture

Berg: 7 frühe lieder

Brahms: Sinfonia no. 1

Erica Back, soloist
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor
Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat Orchestra

Beethoven: Egmont Ouverture 

Berg: 7 frühe lieder

Brahms: Sinfonia no 1

Erica Back, soloist
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor
Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat Orchestra

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Berg: 7 frühe lieder

Brahms: Sinfonia no. 1

Erica Back, soloist
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor
Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat Orchestra

Marjukka Tepponen, Fiordiligi
Erica Back, Dorabella
Jussi Myllys, Ferrando
Waltteri Torikka, Guglielmo
Suvi Väyrynen, Despina
Nicholas Söderlund, Don Alfonso
 

Guy Joosten, stage director
Christoph Altstaedt, conductor
Orchestra and Choir at FNO

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Marjukka Tepponen, Fiordiligi
Erica Back, Dorabella
Jussi Myllys, Ferrando
Waltteri Torikka, Guglielmo
Suvi Väyrynen, Despina
Nicholas Söderlund, Don Alfonso
 

Guy Joosten, stage director
Christoph Altstaedt, conductor
Orchestra and Choir at FNO

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Marjukka Tepponen, Fiordiligi
Erica Back, Dorabella
Jussi Myllys, Ferrando
Waltteri Torikka, Guglielmo
Suvi Väyrynen, Despina
Nicholas Söderlund, Don Alfonso
 

Guy Joosten, stage director
Christoph Altstaedt, conductor
Orchestra and Choir at FNO

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Marjukka Tepponen, Fiordiligi
Erica Back, Dorabella
Jussi Myllys, Ferrando
Waltteri Torikka, Guglielmo
Suvi Väyrynen, Despina
Nicholas Söderlund, Don Alfonso
 

Guy Joosten, stage director
Christoph Altstaedt, conductor
Orchestra and Choir at FNO

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Marjukka Tepponen, Fiordiligi
Erica Back, Dorabella
Jussi Myllys, Ferrando
Waltteri Torikka, Guglielmo
Suvi Väyrynen, Despina
Nicholas Söderlund, Don Alfonso
 

Guy Joosten, stage director
Christoph Altstaedt, conductor
Orchestra and Choir at FNO

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Mia Heikkinen, soprano
Erica Back, alto
Jussi Salonen, tenor and Evangelist
Esa Ruuttunen, Jesus
Petri Pussila, bass

Seppo Välimäki, conductor
Graduale Orchestra and Choir

Free admission

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Erica Back, alto
Jussi Salonen, tenor
Kevin Greenlaw, bass

Ainars Rubikis, conductor
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Chamber Choir Cantinovum

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Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas's and librettist Tuomas Parkkinen's new opea Veljeni vartija will be premiere performed in Tampere-talo with the Tampere Philharmonics under the baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and with the following cast:

Tuuli Takala Amanda Rossi
Ville Rusanen Eemil Rossi
Tuomas Katajala Iisakki Friman
Juha Kotilainen Johannes Rossi
Päivi Nisula Rauha Valkonen
Erica Back Serafina Suomi
Virpi Räisänen Hanna Waltz
Suvi Väyrynen Onni Kontio
Tuomas Pursio Tuntematon sotilas

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Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas's and librettist Tuomas Parkkinen's new opea Veljeni vartija will be premiere performed in Tampere-talo with the Tampere Philharmonics under the baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and with the following cast:

Tuuli Takala Amanda Rossi
Ville Rusanen Eemil Rossi
Tuomas Katajala Iisakki Friman
Juha Kotilainen Johannes Rossi
Päivi Nisula Rauha Valkonen
Erica Back Serafina Suomi
Virpi Räisänen Hanna Waltz
Suvi Väyrynen Onni Kontio
Tuomas Pursio Tuntematon sotilas

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