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Savonlinna Opera Festival publications 2011

You can order the Festival Handbook and librettos for the 2011 Savonlinna Opera Festival in advance. You can also buy them at all the hotel receptions and on your arrival at the Castle for a performance.

The Festival Handbook 2011

The Festival Handbook, a major source of information about the Savonlinna Opera Festival, has been published ever since 1967. It is greatly prized by opera lovers, many of whom have collected the whole series. The handbook is a pleasing souvenir of your visit to the opera. It is also a fund of information covering the full four-week season in a single book and giving details in Finnish and English of the season’s operas, concerts and artists.
Format: 220 x 220 mm, four-colour.
Pages: 192 + covers.
On sale from June 10, 2011.
Price: €20 (incl. VAT 9%).
Delivery charges €6.50 (incl. VAT 9%).

Librettos:

The opera librettos give the vocal texts (in the language of the performance and Finnish), brief background information and a synopsis in Finnish and English.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, libretto

Pages: 84 + covers. A5 format, stapled.
Contents: background info and synopsis (Finnish-English), vocal texts (Italian-Finnish), four central photo pages.
Price €7 (incl. VAT 23%).
Delivery charges €6.50 (incl. VAT 23%).

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, libretto

Pages: 68 + covers. A5 format, stapled.
Contents: background info and synopsis (Finnish-English), vocal texts (German-Finnish), four central photo pages.
Price €7 (incl. VAT 23%).
Delivery charges €6.50 (incl. VAT 23%).

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca, libretto

Pages: 68 + covers. A5 format, stapled.
Contents: background info and synopsis (Finnish-English), vocal texts (Italian-Finnish), four central photo pages.
Price €7 (incl. VAT 23%).
Delivery charges €6.50 (incl. VAT 23%).

Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo , libretto

Hungarian Evening, libretto
Zoltán Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus & Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Pages: 30 + covers. A5 format, stapled.
Contents: background info, synopsis of Bluebeard's Castle, vocal text of Psalmus Hungaricus & Bluebeard's Castle in Finnish and English.
Price €7 (incl. VAT 23%).
Delivery charges €6.50 (incl. VAT 23%)

Corporate, group and tour-operator orders:

Savonlinna Swimming Club, Mr Markku Makkonen, email to mako_makkonen@hotmail.com.
Under an agreement with the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Savonlinna Swimming Club will once again be in charge of selling the Festival Handbook and librettos in and around Olavinlinna Castle on performance nights. In buying these publications, you also support the youth work carried out by this Club.