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The Finnish Prisoner
Opera by Orlando Gough
The composer in 2008
LibrettistStephen Plaice
LanguageEnglish
Premiere
11 July 2007 (2007-07-11)
Lewes

The Finnish Prisoner is an opera by Orlando Gough set to an English-language libretto written by Stephen Plaice who based it on the true story of Finnish prisoners of war incarcerated in England during the Åland War, part of the Crimean War.[1]

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