Finnish opera

[2] The first opera to be composed in Finland was Kung Karls jakt with music by Fredrik Pacius and a libretto by Zacharias Topelius.

[4] The Domestic Opera established by Aino Ackté and Edvard Fazer gave its first performance 2 October 1911.

[5] Finnish opera got international reputation in the 1970s with works by Joonas Kokkonen and Aulis Sallinen.

Kokkonen's opera The Last Temptations (1975) was staged in Metropolitan in New York in 1983 and received over 500 performances worldwide.

[7] Famous singers include Matti Salminen, Martti Talvela, Karita Mattila and Soile Isokoski.