Valkoiset ruusut. Musiikkia Suomi-filmeistä
(Music from Finnish motion pictures)
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, soprano · Tommi Hakala, baritone · Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra · John Storgårds, conductor
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Tommi Hakala
Tommi Hakala, BBC Singer of the World in 2003, graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and studied in Karlsruhe before starting his career as a baritone in Germany and his native Finland. A regular guest of the Finnish National Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival, he has held positions at the Nuremberg Opera (1998-2001) as well as the Leipzig Opera (2001-2004).
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From the Ondine artist archive. Appointments and season references reflect the original biography.
He has made guest appearances as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Finnish National Opera, and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Sallinen’s Ratsumies (The Horseman), in Tannhäuser, as Valentin in Faust and in the new opera Isän tyttö (Daddy’s Girl) by Olli Kortekangas in 2007. In 2006, Hakala made his début at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Valentin in Faust and in San Francisco in Le nozze di Figaro. He will be appearing in Le nozze di Figaro again in Atlanta in 2008, and also in Massenet’s Manon at the Metropolitan. His recent guest appearances include Sibelius’s Kullervo in Amsterdam and Dortmund, Evgeny Onegin in Tel Aviv and Don Carlos in Copenhagen.
His repertoire includes Britten’s War Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony. He sang the title role in the recording of Sallinen’s opera Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France) with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu (ODE 1066-2D).
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Jean Sibelius
Kullervo
Soile Isokoski, soprano · Tommi Hakala, baritone · YL Male Voice Choir · Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra · Leif Segerstam, conductor
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Tommi Hakala
Tule, armaani · Songs by Toivo Kuula
Tommi Hakala, baritone · Kristian Attila, piano
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Aulis Sallinen
The King Goes Forth to France - Opera in Three Acts
Tommi Hakala, baritone · Jyrki Korhonen, bass · Riikka Rantanen, mezzo-soprano · Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano · Mari Palo, soprano · Laura Nykänen, contralto · Jyrki Anttila, tenor · Herman Wallén, baritone · Santeri Kinnunen, spoken role · Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra · Okko Kamu, conductor
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