Ice Kuusisto

A young pastor and his family settle on a remote Finnish island Life is wonderful by the glistening sea but winter is coming and the newcomers know nothing of its perils UllaLena Lundbergs Ice was awarded the 2012 Finlandia prize and has become the most cherished Finnish novel of the decade It has attracted much interest from theatres but the Finnish National Opera is the first to get permission to adapt it for the stage Juhani Koivistos libretto follows the key events and characters of the novel with music by Jaakko Kuusisto that rings with the changing seasons and the everpresent threat of ice