The Mouthpiece, The Request, Emerge: Oops…life! and love is a rebellious bird explore the themes of trauma, class, technology and fantasy. Their rugged edges, black comedy and touching beauty come together in surprising and unsettling ways.

The Sugar Factory 2026

Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Director Barrie Kosky plunges us into a nightmarish, wildly exaggerated satire, with marching noses, rolling rickshaw tables, and caricatured protagonists in garish costumes that straddle folklore and historicism, all unfolding within a cold, bleak setting that feels claustrophobic despite its size. This surrealist story of the insecure and paranoid upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov is transformed into a absurd, kaleidoscopic revue of the vanities, an unsettling collision of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland with its own ‘irrational’ logic.

The Nose

Schiller Theater

When two young people in Verona first set eyes on each other, their lives are changed forever. They know they are destined for each other, even though their families are sworn enemies due to a blood feud. Their tragic fate is therefore inevitable.

Sam Taskinen

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 29 - Oct 17, 2026

Roméo et Juliette · La Monnaie / De Munt

Past events

13 - 15 Aug, 2026

The Sugar Factory 2026 · Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Mar 15 - Apr 6, 2026

The Nose · Komische Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Security guard / 7th employee / Coachman in The Nose by Shostakovich

Komische Oper Berlin

Le duc de Vérone in Roméo et Juliette by Gounod

La Monnaie / De Munt

Singer in The Mouthpiece by Webb

Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Singer in Emerge: Oops…life! by Hyytiäinen

Finnish National Opera and Ballet

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