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10/04/2021. Kalevala on the Theater Stage
The 9th of April is the birthday of Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884), a Finnish scientist, folklorist, who made runes used among the people world famous on the pages of the Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala.
On the 9th of April, the traditional Kalevala Marathon ends. This day, the National Library of Karelia presents a brief overview of bright performances on stages of the leading theatres of Petrozavodsk since 1935 up to the present day.
We invite you to listen to the podcast "Kalevala" on the Theater Stage"
In the Electronic Library of the Writers of Karelia, there is an article Incomparably Modest Elias Lönnrit and a Pine by a A. P. Perttu, a writer and a member of famous rune singers’ family Perttunen.
In the Electronic Library of the Republic of Karelia, there is a book in Finnish language ”Kalevalan laulumailta : Elias Lönnrotin poluilla Vienan Karjalassa” (Eng. From the Kalevala Song Country: Lönnrot’s Footsteps to the Folk Singing Villages of Archangel Karelia) written by I. K. Ihna, an ethnographer, journalist and photographer, who made in the end of the 19th century a trip to the places of E. Lönnrot (free registration is required).
We invite you to refer to full-text electronic resources. The Collection of Full-Text Documents on the Theme of the Epic Poem Kalevala contains electronic copies of the most valuable editions of Kalevala in Russian and other languages and also presents full texts of textbooks and literary documents dedicated to the theme of the Karelian and Finnish epic poem, and also handwritten notes by composers of the republic containing musical works based on the Kalevala.
Your attention is invited to a photo gallery of scenes from performances, posters, creative teams that created theatrical embodiment of the runes of the epic poem Kalevala, publications from the Electronic Catalog of the National Library of Karelia.