Jorma Hynninen, Lasse Pöysti, Eeva-Lisa Saarinen, Helena Juntunen, Jyväskylä Sinfonia & Markus Lehtinen

Rautavaara: Aleksis Kivi

Without an artist of his stature to give weight and meaning to the endless stream of declamation, which has to be delivered over orchestral writing of film-score-like banality, the opera would be an even more deadening experience than it is anyway.