Outside of Copenhagen, there has been an active operatic history in Aarhus.
- Albeck, Gustav, and Gerhard Schepelern. Opera i Aarhus: En historisk frem-
stilling udgivet i anledning af den Jyske Opera’s 25 års jubilaeum. Aarhus:
Universitetsforlaget, 1972. 313p. ML1743.8 .A2 A45.
A history and chronology of performances (with casts and staff lists) for 1947– - Works are listed by composer, with performances statistics. Singers, pre-
mieres, essays on the chorus and the new Jyske Opera house. Bibliography of
about 250 titles, name index.
2218.Musical Denmark,1–, 1952–. Copenhagen: Danske Selskab, 1952–. Irregular.
Popular articles about Danish musical events and Danish music performed in
other countries. Selective lists of newly published music and books on music;
discographies.
A similar title, Musical Denmark Yearbook(1994–) is in the Library of
Congress catalogue (ML27 .D3 D36); it has not been seen. - McLoskey, Lansing D. Twentieth-Century Danish Music: An Annotated Bibli-
ography and Research Directory. Music Reference Collection, 65. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood, 1998. xxi, 149p. ISBN 0-313-30293-6. ML120 .D3 M35.
A topical bibliography, with entries for history of opera, opera companies, and
works. Composers are listed both chronologically and alphabetically in two
appendixes.
The website <www.kgl-teater.dk/dkt/> gives current opera calendars.
Finland (Finnish: Suomen)
No scholarly writing about opera in Finland exists in a common language. There are
some brief surveys in English.
- “Finland.” Musikrevy30 (1975): 99–180. ML5 .M9635.
A special English-language issue of a Swedish journal, all about Finnish music,
in popular style. Covers operatic life and gives short biographies of 16 com-
posers and some opera singers. - Hillila, Ruth-Esther, and Barbara Blanchard Hong. Historical Dictionary of
Music and Musicians in Finland. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997. x,
473p. ISBN 0-313-27728-1. ML101 .F5 H55.
Consists of about 900 entries, most of them biographies of composers and per-
formers, with worklists and bibliographies. Opera is not an entry topic or
index entry. Chronology of Finnish music history, bibliography of about 60
items, index. - De Gorog, Lisa, and Ralph Paul de Gorog. From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish
Nationalism and the Music of Finland. New York: Greenwood, 1989. ix,
252p. ISBN 0-313-267405. ML269.5 .D4.
A popular survey, with a chapter on “Stage and Vocal Music in Finland,” 173– - Bibliography, index.
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