"Intellectually stimulating and teasingly funny art of our time."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"This three-hour, precisely timed sound structure is a confusing, constantly moving deconstruction of language, voice and sound. […] The bizarre fascination that the spectacle has created will not get out of your head so quickly."
Vroni Silberg
Vroni Silberg in M.94,5 on NOS
"Voice Box was full of tongue in cheek [...] that allowed the audience to fully join in."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"The avant-garde business trip to the green creates a situational border experience with a feel-good program."
Anna Schürmer
Anna Schürmer in Neue Musikzeitung on NOS
"The audience […] experiences an masterfull musical performance, which is then deconstructed in an irritating sequence of events at different locations in a deliberately bizarre manner."
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Jörn Peter Hiekel in die Deutsche Bühne on NOS
"Delightful and playful experimental opera from young Finnish composer"
Hilary Glover
Hilary Glover in Planet Hughill on Aikainen
"The most enthusiastic reception got 'ettette' by Miika Hyytiäinen"
Hannu-Ilari Lampila
Hannu-Ilari Lampila HS on ettette
"Genuinely avantgardistic German music theatre."
Kare Eskola
Kare EskolaYLE on Hipstercredo
"Ohrenvergnügendes Tafelkonfekt"
Lauri Otonkoski,
Lauri Otonkoski, HS on Madame Herz und Herr M.
"Musically the performance is excellent."
Jukka Isopuro
Jukka Isopuro HS on Pierrot Lunaire und drei Schattenträume
"Miika Hyytiäinen has composed the score which is full of rich elements."
Hannu Björkbacka
Hannu Björkbacka

Voice is Voices

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Voice is Voices is a sound installation opera about voices and identities. It brings opera and singing closer than you have ever heard it. It is an opera installation about voices and identities:

tricksters of fairytales,

sisters inventing their own language,

opera prelude for four coloratura sopranos,

and about one voice growing into different genders, feelings and personalities.

Different bodies, quotes and styles from baroque to Sprechgesang and Viena Karelian yoik tie Voice is Voices into an opera that invites the audience right inside the intimacy of the opera.

Artistic team:

Miika Hyytiäinen, composition and concept

Henriikka Tavi, libretto

Maija Turunen, Tonmeisterin

Kajsa Dahlbäck, voice (specialist in old music)

Annika Fuhrmann, voice (specialist in contemporary music and folk styles)

Marika Hölttä, voice (specialist in coloratura and pop styles)

Kaisa Ranta, voice (dramatic coloratura)

Louna Hosia, viola da gamba

Pinja Nuñes, cello

Merja Ritola, producer

Emma Kuntsi, production assistant

Production has been supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland, Wihuri Foundation, TTOR foundation, Sibelius-Academy Foundation, Sibelius foundation, The Finnish Music Foundation and Kordelin Foundation.

Photo credits: Miika Hyytiäinen, Jouni Harala, Moises Garibaych, and Studio Auran kuva.

 

A stereo version of the section IV: Bird sisters

Staging the installation

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Performances:

Earlier performances:

Music Hall, Helsinki Finland  4/9/2021 (premiere) Feel Helsinki festival

further performances 5/9 to 10/9/2021 Music Hall 10 year festival

Duration of the piece is 50 minutes

Other projects:

Kompositio

A dual composition for Tulkinnanvaraista 20.1.2024

"Intellectually stimulating and teasingly funny art of our time."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"This three-hour, precisely timed sound structure is a confusing, constantly moving deconstruction of language, voice and sound. […] The bizarre fascination that the spectacle has created will not get out of your head so quickly."
Vroni Silberg
Vroni Silberg in M.94,5 on NOS
"Voice Box was full of tongue in cheek [...] that allowed the audience to fully join in."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"The avant-garde business trip to the green creates a situational border experience with a feel-good program."
Anna Schürmer
Anna Schürmer in Neue Musikzeitung on NOS
"The audience […] experiences an masterfull musical performance, which is then deconstructed in an irritating sequence of events at different locations in a deliberately bizarre manner."
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Jörn Peter Hiekel in die Deutsche Bühne on NOS
"Delightful and playful experimental opera from young Finnish composer"
Hilary Glover
Hilary Glover in Planet Hughill on Aikainen
"The most enthusiastic reception got 'ettette' by Miika Hyytiäinen"
Hannu-Ilari Lampila
Hannu-Ilari Lampila HS on ettette
"Genuinely avantgardistic German music theatre."
Kare Eskola
Kare EskolaYLE on Hipstercredo
"Ohrenvergnügendes Tafelkonfekt"
Lauri Otonkoski,
Lauri Otonkoski, HS on Madame Herz und Herr M.
"Musically the performance is excellent."
Jukka Isopuro
Jukka Isopuro HS on Pierrot Lunaire und drei Schattenträume
"Miika Hyytiäinen has composed the score which is full of rich elements."
Hannu Björkbacka
Hannu Björkbacka

 Miika Hyytiäinen

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