By George Loomis [Financial Times, 5 February 2007]
Thanks to contemporary composers such as Kaija Saarijao, Einojuani Rautaavara and Aulis Sallinen, Finlandís per capita contribution to the continued vitality of opera is second to none. But is misplaced pride behind the Finnish National Operaís exhumation of ìthe first Finnish operaî ñ Fredrik Paciusís The Hunt of King Charles, a rarity even in Finland?