Eerik XIV live broadcast online on Saturday

The opera Eerik XIV will be broadcast live online on Saturday November 26th at 3-6.25 pm. The premiere on Tuesday got a splendid welcome. There are still tickets for all the performances, but to enable that also people who don´t have the opportunity to come to Turku get to see the unique performance, the opera will also be broadcasted on the Internet.

Eerik XIV brings together film and opera on one stage. The audience follows simultaneously both the making of the opera as well as large projections on different levels. Eerik XIV is a story about King Eric, his beloved Karina Månsdotter, about power, imprisonment, love and madness.

Multidimensional technical solutions, dramatic music and world-class soloists create a work that delves deeply into the fate of one of the most interesting sovereigns in Finland’s history.

This three-act opera is performed by 10 soloists, an opera chorus and a large symphony orchestra. The City of Turku commissioned the opera from Composer Mikko Heiniö and Librettist Juha Siltanen in honour of the Capital of Culture year.