Carried by the Current

Stefan Geiger, favourite of the Oulu audience, returns to the Madetoja Hall with a programme guaranteed to lift the spirits! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote more than twenty operas, and Idomeneo may well be the finest of them all. The ballet suite drawn from the opera distils its full-length drama into a concert opener brimming with colour and character.

Robert Schumann wrestled with the symphonic form until, in his Third Symphony, he finally found the key. Its majestically flowing character depicts the River Rhine – a broad, surging, inexhaustible source of inspiration.

The French composer Francis Poulenc was, all at once, a devout Catholic, an eternal schoolboy and a gleeful iconoclast. His most beloved work, the Concerto for Two Pianos, is a vivid reflection of his personality – a joyful extravaganza laced with irony, where early jazz, contemplative stillness and the spirit of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meet and mingle.

Head start at Restaurant Preludi at 18.00. Discussion of the forthcoming concert.

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Duration about 1 h 35 min (incl. intermission)

Tickets 32 € normal / 27 € pensioner / 19 € student, unemployed, child (3–17 yrs)
Free entry to the concert for Kaikukortti holders (limited amount, must be purchased in advance from Oulu10 service point).

Prices include service fee. Order fee 3 €/order when bought from Ticketmaster shops or 1,50 €/order when bought from Ticketmaster online shop will be added, excluding tickets purchased at Oulu Sinfonia ticket booth and Kaikukortti-tickets.