Theater director Kaisa Korhonen has died at the age of 82.
Theater director Kaisa Korhonen has died of a long illness on April 25 in Helsinki. Korhonen was 82 years old when he died. The information is confirmed to HS by his son Kalle Chydenius.
Korhonen had a long career in Finnish theatre. He started his career in the 1960s and became famous in 1966 for the premiere of From the Lapua opera.
Korhonen worked in his career as the first lecturer of directing work at the Finnish Theater School, as a professor of theater work at the Department of Acting at the University of Tampere and as a professor of directing work at the Theater Academy.
Korhonen debuted as a director at Ylioppilasteatteri in 1965. In the early 1970s, he was founding the Finnish-language KOM theater, of which he also acted as director.
During his career, Korhonen received many recognitions and awards. He received the title of honorary doctor of theater arts at the University of Theater Arts in 2009. Korhonen was awarded the Eino Leino award in 1974 and the Pro Finlandia medal in 1990.
Korhonen has also written works about his career and work in the theater. In 1993, his memoirs were published Defiance, fury, longing. Notes about work and life.
Kaisa Korhonen in 1970.
His directorial work in addition, Korhonen has also acted in several plays himself and recorded music. Korhonen’s first own album Kaisa Korhonen was released in 1969 and the most recent album Songs of our country in 1977.
Korhonen was a married musician Kaj Chydenius with. They divorced in 1988. Chydenius died last Saturday. Their children Kalle and Jussi Chydenius are well-known musicians. Korhonen has been married since 1991 Matti Rasilan with.
“Mother and father both got to live a long life. They were very work-oriented people, and they were able to do the work they loved for a long time,” Kalle Chydenius tells HS.
In 2016 In an interview with HS Korhonen said that when she was young she was stigmatized because she was a young woman and the daughter of a priest.
“I received a lot of hate. If I had been a boy, this would not have happened,” Korhonen said.
In 2016, directed by Korhonen, it premiered at the National Theatre Minna Canthin a play about life, thinking and works, Canth – a story about people of the new era.
Korhonen said at the time that Canth was a work very close to him.
“I feel that I am her student, I feel such a sense of togetherness. Not that I respect too much, but that Minna comes very close. A multi-level life where the work of a sensational writer and the single parenting of seven children combined. I, on the other hand, am the daughter of a priest’s family with seven children.”