ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
1
Hasso Krull, ‘Eesti noorem proosa’ (Estonian youth prose literature) Looming 2 (1997): 258.
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Teater. Muusika. Kino. 4 (1997): 5-12.
Andrus Kivirähk (b. 1970) is noted for his ambivalent world, time and reality shifts,
and play with comedy and burlesque: Vanamehed seitsmendalt korruselt (Old Men
from the Seventh Floor, 1994).
As an outstanding event in music theatre, the extensive tour of the Estonia
Theatre to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland with Khovanshchina by
Mussorgsky and Barbara von Tisenhusen by Tubin took place in spring 1991.
It became inevitable to arrange competitions to find young opera singers: Nadia
Kurem (b. 1960), Pille Lill (b. 1962), Pirjo Levandi (b. 1968) and Vello Jürna (b. 1959)
soon rose forth. Of foreign producers, Georg Malvius (Sweden), Joachim Hertz
(Germany) and Monika Wiesler (Austria) have to be mentioned.
In the Baltic states, film production has always been supported by the state. As