Time for opera!
“If you ever see a red trumpet, buy it!” (Me at five)
My name is Jasper Leppänen. I am a singer and musician from Tampere. Music and theatre have always been a part of my life. I started playing the trumpet when I was a kid after seeing a shiny red trumpet in the window of a music store. Not quite the instrument my parents were thinking about but I was sold and since then I’ve played and performed music in different forms.
My first experiences in a professional theatre were when I was ten years old. In a way I feel like there wasn’t much deciding when I started to pursue becoming a professional musician after high school. After studying the trumpet for couple of years singing took over. In the end I graduated from the conservatory with two degrees. While I was studying music I also did studies of musical theatre and worked on stage. This time really made me sure that theatre is where I would like to work in “when I grow up”.
I see opera and musical theatre as an art form where music can be utilized to the fullest. In those art forms text, rhythm and harmony can all be used in such a vast variety of ways to describe emotion or progress drama. What I want to bring to opera is my experience in multiple fields of music and music theatre. I also want to challenge myself and try to find everything that is possible in opera.
Text: Jasper Leppänen
Opera behind the scenes
In this blog, the Sibelius Academy opera master students write about their experiences before the opera premieres. The texts have been initiated in Liisamaija Hautsalo’s course in which the students are challenged to present the opera background, composers, their own role character and even interview people involved in the opera productions.
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