Finnish Rock Opera

Petrozavodsk was wrestled between Finland and Russia in the past, so naturally there is quite a handful of Finnish people living here and many Russians who can speak Finnish. Every week, there is a Finnish performance at the Musical Theatre. Alena, the Finnish student invited Nicola and I to watch a Finnish rock opera < Byarmija >at the State National Theatre of Karelia ,after our Saturday study session at the library.
http://teatr.onego.ru/

The theatre was quite packed and there was a group of over 40 Russian soldiers out on an excursion to watch this Finnish rock opera about love. That is where all the Russian men have gone. The army.

We were given audio guides for the rock opera. But guess what, there was only Russian audio which was not very helpful because
1. I still don’t know that much Russian to rely on that translation
2. The people on the stage were singing and the audio guide was in spoken Russian. I don’t understand how the Russians can enjoy a rock opera while listening to audio translations

But it was still really interesting to see the Finnish style of rock operas and how Russians speak and sing in Finnish. :)