JORMA SILVASTI
Erik, tenor
 Adding some strong Savo seasoning to the predominantly Turku-oriented cast of Flying Dutchman soloists is Jorma Silvasti, opera town Savonlinna's own international tenor. His career got off to a flying start when he won the Timo Mustakallio Competition in Savonlinna in 1982. Since then he has held contracts at many German opera houses, such as Frankfurt and Karlsruhe, and since 1991 at the Finnish National Opera.
Guest appearances have taken Jorma Silvasti all over the world, to Los Angeles, London (Covent Garden), Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Toulouse, Barcelona Milan (La Scala) and Munich. He made his highly-acclaimed debut at the New York Metropolitan in 2004, as Boris in Janácek's Katya Kabanova. He also sings regularly at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Wagner festival in Bayreuth and is known very well for his Mozart roles, especially as Tamino in The Magic Flute. Other roles in his repertoire include Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the title roles in Gounod's Faust and Wagner's Parsifal, Erik in The Flying Dutchman, Loge in Das Rheingold, Siegmund in Die Walküre, Stolzing in Die Meistersinger, Walther in Tannhäuser, the title role in Britten's Peter Grimes, Max in Weber's Der Freischütz and Laca in Janácek's Jenufa. He has also sung contemporary repertoire, such as the part of Rudolf Höss in Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice with Sir Simon Rattle conducting, and in the operas King Lear and Kullervo by Aulis Sallinen.
Silvasti has a concert repertoire that extends from Bach to Beethoven and from Mahler to Stravinsky and contemporary music. He can also be heard on disc. He has appeared as the soloist with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra two times.
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