Leevi Madetoja: The Ostrobothnians

Directed by Ilmari Aho and Paavo Westerberg

With Johannes Vatjus, Maria Turunen, Ville Rusanen, Johanna Nylund and Päivi Nisula

Finland may be the happiest country on earth, but it is also known as the land of a thousand sad songs. Lurking in the shadows of this Nordic welfare state are violence, alcoholism and inequality. A century after its premiere, the most Finnish of all operas is now being performed in a new production at the Helsinki Opera House.