"..also convincing is the direction of Kalle Kuusava who creates the colors desired by Puccini with a conscious management of orchestral density and transparency, with great musicality and clarity of the gesture." - OperaClick
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Billy Budd, Carmen (ballet) and Jekyll & Hyde (ballet) at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. Concerts with Arctic Philharmonic, Kuopio City Orchestra, Ural Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, Austrian Chamber Orchestra and Szczecin Philharmonic.
Carmen at the Norwegian National Opera, La Traviata at Theater an der Wien, Maid of Pskov at Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Madama Butterfly, Werther and Entführung aus dem Serail at Savonlinna Opera Festival, Triple bill: Made in Finland at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Tosca, Carmen, Madama Butterfly and Tristan und Isolde at Croatian National Opera in Rijeka, L'Elisir d'amore at the Szczecin Opera, as well as collaborations with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, National Philharmonics of Russia, Szczecin Philharmonic and Monte Carlo Ballet. Kuusava has built a vast operatic repertoire, having worked in the Norwegian National Opera from 2008 until 2016 and the season 2007/08 in the Zurich Opera.
Highlights
Kuopio City Orchestra
Highlights
Kuopio City Orchestra
Puccini - Tosca - Act 1
Puccini - Tosca - Act 1
Tchaikovsky & Beethoven
Tchaikovsky & Beethoven
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
...also convincing is the direction of Kalle Kuusava who creates the colors desired by Puccini with a conscious management of orchestral density and transparency, with great musicality and clarity of the gesture."
Not only then, but throughout, the orchestra sounded like veterans of the opera house, and the chorus is of similar calibre. Kalle Kuusava is the latest conductor from Helsinki’s extraordinary Sibelius Academy production line, and his command and commitment here was worthy of his famous predecessors
