Choreographer and Dancer



Great Conspiracy Opera

August 21, 2011    Tags: ,

Things are not always what they seem... or are they? Helsinki Skaala Opera's production Great Conspiracy is a multimedia opera that dives into the shadowy border between the paranoid and the absurd. Is the truth really out there? (more...)

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Madame de Sade

August 11, 2010    Tags:

A new contemporary opera based on the play by the late, controversial Japanese author Yukio Mishima, Skaala Opera Helsinki's Madame de Sade is an endless labyrinth of metamorphoses, colours, scents and mental images. Delicate and erotically charged, it embraces the characters' psychological complexity and suppressed emotions. (more...)

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Kirkan lahje

August 29, 2009    Tags:

A musical theatre production based on the music of the late and legendary Finnish singer Kirka. From Saturday night dances in a long-disappeared rural Finland to the back seat of a broken down Lada, the piece by Kotka City theatre is a fast-moving yet poignant trip through decades past. (more...)

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A Madrigal Opera

April 21, 2009    Tags: ,

Skaala Opera Helsinki's latest production brings together Philip Glass' rarely performed chamber work A Madrigal Opera and poet Lauri Otonkoski's symphonic poem Cameo. The themes of the work include searching for and finding oneself, traveling, as well as curiosity, fear and greed. What does it mean to be adrift in the midst of life? (more...)

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Turing Machine

February 7, 2009    Tags: , , ,

Helsinki Skaala Opera’s Turing Machine weaves together soaring, emotionally charged vocal lines with atmospheric ambient soundscapes and sampled electronic rhythms. The intimate and intense opera for two singers and one dancer is set off by stunning 3D graphics – a visual element ultimately based on the innovations of Alan Turing himself. (more...)

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The Manson Family Opera

November 7, 2006    Tags: ,

A contemporary pop opera based on the infamous Manson Family murders of 1969, which turned the Flower Power dream of peace and love into a blood-soaked nightmare. Helsinki Skaala Opera's production of John Moran's experimental work explores the tragedy, its motives and media circus aftermath through a blend of acoustic and electronic music, aria, monologue, theatre and dance movement. (more...)

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In the Penal Colony

March 11, 2006    Tags: ,

"Does the condemned know his sentence?" "No. There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body." (more...)

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Les Enfants Terribles

September 25, 2005    Tags: ,

Philip Glass's dance opera, based on the novel by Jean Cocteau, is a story of Paul and Lise, two siblings who live isolated in their room, playing their private Game in an world of fantasies. As the children fluctuate between consuming adoration and jealous hatred for each other, their increasingly twisted Game eventually leads to tragedy when confronted with the outside world of adulthood. (more...)

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The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union

April 15, 2004    Tags:

A complex web of people caught up in the relentless flow of events in the contemporary world, all seeking to break through their own isolation, struggling for contact like two Soviet cosmonauts stranded far above their long-dissolved nation. (more...)

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Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme

August 22, 2002    Tags: ,

The award-winning play by acclaimed Irish playwright Frank McGuinness follows eight young men of the 36th (Ulster) Division from their enlistment to their death in the carnage of the battle of the Somme on July 1st, 1916. (more...)

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A Queen and an Executioner – Yks kuningatar, yks mestaaja

February 20, 2002    Tags: , ,

A multi-layered exploration of love, faith and the corruption of power, as seen through the story of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. In August 2002, the piece was presented as a guest performance at the Tampere Theatre festival. (more...)

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