FINNISH NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET, MAIN AUDITORIUM

Strength concludes the spring season, presenting a representative cross-section of Finnish contemporary dance. In this quadruple bill, the audience is treated to works by top ...

When Sibelius found the Kalevala Why does everything go wrong for this tormented man? In the timeless tale from the Finnish national epic, Kullervo unknowingly ...

Tatiana falls in love with Onegin and writes him a letter, but Onegin does not care for her. Olga, for her part, is loved by ...

In Always Strong, a young lute player named Tsunemasa returns to court after his death. While alive, he played heavenly and erotically charged music, but ...

In their childhood, Prince Siegfried and his friend Benno hear the story of Swan Lake and of the beautiful princess turned into a swan by ...

The mistress of Jukola farm has died. Her seven sons had been living in the decaying house under her protection, spending their time playing and ...

Act I in which we meet an enamoured count, a beautiful maiden, a jealous guardian and a barber of many talents, the latter of whom ...

Act I A company of dragoons lounge at a street corner outside their post in Seville. The officer on guard, Morales, tries to flirt with ...

Katerina is married to Zinovi in the middle of nowhere and is pining away. She falls in love with Serge, a farmhand, and when Katerina’s ...

Before the action begins: Eisenstein and Falke the notary once went to a fancy dress ball together, Eisenstein dressed up as a butterfly and Falke ...

Opera is all about virtuosos and dazzling performances, and circus is all about stories and emotions. Now, these two art forms born of grand passion ...

In Porvoo, 24th of December, 1810 Act I A bathroom of an old house in Porvoo. Klaara, a young girl of thirteen, and her younger ...

Seven years have passed once again, the Dutchman returns to the human world and meets Daland. Daland promises the Dutchman his daughter Senta in marriage, ...

The story features the adventures of two children, Kai and Kerttu, in Helsinki over 100 years ago. It is Kerttu’s birthday. Kai has made her ...

(What has happened before the opera begins: Figaro, formerly a self-employed barber in Seville, assisted Count Almaviva in his pursuit of Rosina, the ward of ...

Jorma Elo, choreographer with the Boston Ballet, visits Helsinki again. This time there is a promise of imaginative pyrotechnics, as the colourful characters from Lewis ...

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) wrote a timeless tragedy of two lover, Romeo Montague and Julia Capulet, set in Verona. Now this tale of young lovers caught ...

In the courtyard of the Palace of Mycenae, the servants are wondering whether Elektra will be grieving over her father, as is her daily ritual. ...