The Opera as a Multidisciplinary Collaboration course is being held for the second time this academic year at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Students of composition, singing, directing, dramaturgy and playwriting will create 20-minute operas in the course, which will be performed to the audience in April at the Music Hall. There will be an intermediate stage of the course at Musica nova, where the working groups will talk about the stages of their work and present musical drafts of their future works. The course participants have been divided into three working groups, which will present their work-in-progress operas at the event together with the supervising teachers Riikka Talvitie , Martina Roos and Saana Lavastie . 

Piggy Sparkle is an anarchist and posthumanist fable about motherhood and homesickness.  

The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix is ​​a high-octane tragedy. Through the F1 accident that killed Ayrton Senna, we examine the concepts of speed, spectacle and sainthood. 

Margaritifera, margaritifera!! is a beautiful and dark fairy tale about mussels and people. 

The event is in English.

Composition students: Ján Števuliak, Niki Main and Yuto Obata Librettist students: Peppi Toivola and Sara Koiranen, Mimmi Ahonen and Kasimir Koski, Minne Mäki and Fabian Silén Direction students: Bálint Barcsai, Ikenna Anyabuike, Kirmo Komulainen, Antti Silvennoinen, Gua Khee Chong and Ismael Peura

Student singers: Adelia Spångberg, Maja Burggraaff, Wille Enckell, Gabriel Kivivuori Sereno, Kharissa Newbill Adames, Niki Main 

The course's responsible teachers are Riikka Talvitie, Martina Roos and Saana Lavaste.

Time:

• Thu 6.2.2025 11:00–13:00

• Organizer:

  Sibelius Academy

• Address:

  Music Hall Auditorium
  Töölönlahdenkatu
  00100 Helsinki

• Bunting:

  The event is free of charge.