Lotus

Previous Next Premiered at Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 2006 Performance of new version_ at Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 2019 For kantele, video and electronics “Lotus” was premiered already in 2006 by Matleena Knuuti and later performed by Eva Alkula in the world renown festival Kuhmo Chamber Music. In many ways this piece marked the beginning […]

You Are Here

Voriger Nächster YOU ARE HERE is a new location specific opera by Miika Hyytiäinen and Jaakko Nousiainen. The work creates an abstraction of ‘the opera house’ by connecting interior spaces in the Glyndebourne opera house to exterior spaces in front of the three opera houses in Berlin. YOU ARE HERE will be encountered in form […]

Aikainen_ an opera about time

Premiered_ in Berlin, 4./5. April 2014 Performed_ in London, 1.-3. September 2014 Voriger Nächster Aikainen [Finnish for “early/about time”] is a piece of experimental music theatre that spans many art forms: Visual arts, performance art, poetry and film. Its five parts are about different aspects of time and temporality: “Ending”, “Generations”, “space-time-continuum” and “Memory”. In another part […]

La Figure de la Terre

Previous Next Opera “la figure de la Terre” is an opera about measuring the shape of the Earth and the depth of the heart.  Two journeys, two strangers: the French scientist Maupertuis travels to Lappland to determine the shape of the earth. He meets Christine Planström, a young woman from the northern wilderness, who accompanies […]

Pierrot lunaire und drei Schattenträume

Previous Next Pierrot lunaire und drei Schattenträume Pierrot lunaire und drei Schattenträume combines Arnold Schöberg’s modern master piece to my music. The music was directed by Jaakko Nousiainen into a one hour music theatre piece. The text was a dream diary of soprano Annika Fuhrmann who also sang the solo part. Katariina Nyberg was the […]

Omnivore

Voriger Nächster Premiered at Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 2006 Omnivore is an online opera that consists of seven thematically interlinked short episodes about food, eating and culinary habits. The opera introduces you to a mischievous foodie called ‘O’, who is passionate about all aspects of her nourishment. This experimental artwork was originally produced for mobile […]