Tero Saarinen Company and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra create a gripping contemporary fusion of dance, live music, opera and design. World-renowned choreographer Tero Saarinen’s new magnum opus explores radical shifts in values and perspectives. Claudio Monteverdi’s revolutionary, breathtakingly beautiful madrigals are brilliantly incarnated by twelve dancers and musicians, plus tenor Topi Lehtipuu and virtual soprano Núria Rial. The international co-production received its world premiere at Festival Monteverdi in Cremona, Italy in May 2019.
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Third Practice
Choreography & Concept: Tero Saarinen
Music: Claudio Monteverdi
Music direction, Arrangement: Aapo Häkkinen
Lighting design: Eero Auvinen (TTT-Theatre)
Projection design: Thomas Freundlich
Costume design: Erika Turunen
Sound design: Marco Melchior
Choreographer’s Assistants: Henrikki Heikkilä, Satu Halttunen
Virtual soloist (soprano): Núria Rial
Soloist (tenor): Topi Lehtipuu
Dancers | Tero Saarinen Company: Jenna Broas, Natasha Lommi / Satu Halttunen, Annika Hyvärinen, David Scarantino, Eero Vesterinen, Won Won-Myeong / Pekka Louhio
Musicians | Helsinki Baroque Orchestra: Julien Martin (recorder), Tuomo Suni / Maite Larburu (violin), Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Mikko Perkola (viola da gamba), Eero Palviainen (theorbo), Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord)
Duration: 70 min, no intermission
World Premiere: 29 May, 2019, Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli, Rassegna di Danza & Festival Monteverdi, Cremona, Italy
Production Tero Saarinen Company
Supported by Jane & Aatos Erkko Foundation (Finland)
In collaboration with Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli (Italy)
With thanks to Rassegna di Danza & Festival Monteverdi (Fondazione Teatro A. Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy), ATER – Associazione Teatrale Emilia Romagna (Italy), Kuopio Dance Festival (Finland), Stoa (Finland), the Finnish National Theatre and TTT-Theatre (Finland)
Trailer realisation: Thomas Freundlich / Lumikinos Production