Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finnish: Savonlinnan oopperajuhlat) is held annually in the city of Savonlinna in Finland. The Festival takes place at the medieval...
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church in the world. Savonlinna hosts the famous annual Savonlinna Opera Festival, which was held first time in 1912. The operas are performed on a stage...
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Olavinlinna (redirect from Savonlinna Castle)
still standing. The castle forms a spectacular stage for the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which was held for the first time in the summer of 1912. The...
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clubs around Finland. That same year, Turunen performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival for the first time, singing arias from Wagner and Verdi. Due to...
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with seats, and a cafeteria. Its busiest times are during the Savonlinna Opera Festival when there are more scheduled and charter flights to the airport...
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Opera. Savonlinna Opera Festival takes place annually at the medieval Olavinlinna in the city of Savonlinna. Aino Ackté organised the first festival in...
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Ryttaren) is an opera in three acts by Aulis Sallinen, based on a libretto by Paavo Haavikko. It was premiered by the Savonlinna Opera Festival on 17 June...
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in Tampere. St. Olaf's Castle (Olavinlinna) in Savonlinna hosts the annual Savonlinna Opera Festival, and the medieval milieus of the cities of Turku...
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Martti Wallén (category 20th-century Finnish male opera singers)
National Opera for many years. He created the role of the Judge in the world premiere of Aulis Sallinen's The Horseman at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1975...
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the festival streamed all six of its productions online. In July 2012, the first online community opera was premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Titled...
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This is an inclusive list of opera festivals and summer opera seasons, and music festivals which have opera productions. This list may have some overlap...
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Marzelline in a film version of Beethoven's Fidelio from the Savonlinna Opera Festival, and in 1978 she sang Tatjana in a film version of Tchaikovsky's...
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Music of Finland (section Opera)
other opera singers founded the Finnish Opera in 1911. Ackté began a festival in Savonlinna the following year; this was the precursor of the Savonlinna Opera...
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Daddy's Girl is an opera by composer Olli Kortekangas and librettist Michael Baran. It was commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Finnish...
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Royal Swedish Opera (Marie/Marietta in Die tote Stadt), and the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Eva). She has also performed in concerts with the American Symphony...
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Martti Talvela (category 20th-century Finnish male opera singers)
artistic leader of the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland, from 1972–79, and had been appointed general director of the National Opera in Helsinki just before...
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Lisette Oropesa (category 21st-century American women opera singers)
velvety sound" In July, she debuted Roméo et Juliette with the Savonlinna Opera Festival to critical acclaim with a "supple, beautiful voice". In mid July...
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Pretty Yende (category Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners)
Competition, first prize at the International Singing Competition of Savonlinna Opera Festival (shared), and sixth prize at the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition...
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Mika Kares (category 21st-century Finnish male opera singers)
at the Savonlinna Opera Festival for the first time, as Boito's Mefistofele. He appeared as the King in Verdi' Aida at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki...
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time, he was chief conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera again and of the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland until 2000. He held positions with numerous...
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musicians was organized. The history of Savonlinna Music Academy thus goes back to times before Savonlinna Opera Festival made the small town internationally...
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Mikhailovsky Theatre (redirect from Mussorgsky Opera Theatre)
York City Ballet. Also in 2013, the Mikhailovsky Opera made its debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, and, in November 2014, the Mikhailovsky Ballet...
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Cynthia Makris (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
She was Artist of the Year of the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2006, an award for her contribution to the festival since 1993, when she sang Lady Macbeth...
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libretto into Finnish was by the composer. The opera was commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and composed between 1991 and 1993. Palatsi was...
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Tampere Savonlinna Opera Festival, Savonlinna Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, Helsinki Weekend Festival, Helsinki Aix-en-Provence Festival, Aix-en-Provence...
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Aino Ackté (category Opera librettists)
public performances took place at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1930. She provided the libretto for Juha, and opera that received two treatments: the first...
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Tapani Plathan (category 21st-century Finnish male opera singers)
National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka, Helsinki Festival, and latest, in Savonlinna Opera Festival. In the season 2016-2017 Tapani Plathan has performed...
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Aulis Sallinen (category Finnish opera composers)
Sallinen's first opera, Ratsumies, known in English as The Horseman, premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1975. His second opera, Punainen viiva...
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Ruža Pospiš-Baldani (category 20th-century Croatian women opera singers)
Liceu, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the National Opera of Sofia, the Salzburg Festival, the San Francisco Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Teatro dell'Opera...
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Mäster Styver, a Merchant from Gotland) Joensuu City Orchestra, Savonlinna Opera Festival Chorus, Pekka Haapasalo [fi] (conductor) Matthew Boyden; Nick...
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