The world’s first online community-created opera presented in Savonlinna
The Savonlinna Opera Festival will be placing world-class soloists, a chorus of 80, a symphony orchestra and its entire production machinery at the community’s disposal. The community opera will be premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in summer 2012.
– Writing the libretto and music for an opera has traditionally been the work of only a few, as has the visual designing. We now want a large group of people to take part in this unique creative process from the very beginning. Through this project we can, I believe, tempt new people into the rich and colourful world of opera, says Savonlinna Opera Festival General Director Jan Hultin.
Helping the Internet community will be a group of opera professionals: the Savonlinna Opera Festival’s Head of Productions Jukka Pohjolainen, composer Markus Fagerudd, opera director Jere Erkkilä and project manager Sivi Uitto.
The project’s first challenge is to find a suitable topic for the opera.
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