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Year 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the births of two great opera composers: Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. In honour of the occasion, the Opera Festival is staging one of the most popular operas of all times, Verdi's La traviata. The......

This spectacular event is one of the most important regular celebrations of dance art in the Nordic countries. In addition to dance performances, the festival week will feature dozens of dance courses, street events, club evenings, parades and......

The Finnish National Opera is an opera and ballet company of high international standard. It is a truly national institution, as it includes the only professional opera company in Finland, the only professional ballet company, the only......

Our opera festival will sparkle under the starlight of long Nordic nights in 2013 with a programme of more than 30 events, including Britten's Let's make an opera and Holst's Savitri, together with the Shopping Operas, opera clubs and a series of......

The scenic landscapes of Pyhäjärvi provide the stage for the leading lights of Finnish and international contemporary dance. The programme will also include dance courses, workshops and discussion events....

Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finnish: Savonlinnan oopperajuhlat) is held annually in the city of Savonlinna in Finland. The Festival takes place at the medieval Olavinlinna (St. Olaf's Castle), built in 1475. The castle is located amid spectacular......

Oulu City Theatre is located on the island of Vänmanninsaari in the estuary of the Oulu River, close to the commercial centre of the city and just beside the Market Place. There is also a bridge connecting it to another island housing the ......

  Kuusankoski Theatre was founded in 1956 as a professional-led, supporter's association-based amateur theatre, which performs on two of the stages......

Harrastajateatterilla on etunsa. Se tarjoaa teatterin tekemisestä kiinnostuneille monen muotoisia mahdollisuuksia kokeilla kykyjään ja tyydyttää tekemisen tarpeita. Harrastajateatterin oma etu on, että se voi......

Kouvola Theatre is the only professional theatre in Kouvola, and in the Finnish theatre field it is a producing theatre of middle size. The theatre was founded in 1960 and the total number of yearly audience is some 40.000 spectators. Usually......

The Palatsi Music Theatre in Tampere, originally called Tuulensuu House, was designed by Bertel Strömmer and built in 1929. A fine example of the prevalent 1920's classicism, it was originally used as a movie theatre. It has......

  Dance Theatre MD, the only existing unified dance theatre in Finland and the only professional dance theatre in Tampere and the Pirkanmaa region, was formed in 1997, as two Tampere-based dance companies, Mobita (1972) and Dansco......

Tampere Comedy Theatre was founded in the early 1990s, and presented it's first play on the 3rd of July 1992. During the winter the theatre operates from newly renovated premises in the city centre, and in the summer the theatre......

The TTT-Theatre is a professional theatre founded in 1901, the only professional workers theatre in the country. The core repertoire consists of Finnish drama, classics of world litterature, musicals and music......

Ahaa Teatre is a professional touring theatre based in Tampere, which performs at Hotel Ilves in the city centre, and in Koski in dowtown Tampere. Ahaa is one of eight Finnish youth theatres, and one of three that are based in......

TT-Frenckell is owned and run by Tampere Theatre, and is the more adventurous of its three stages. Housed in an old red-brick building, you enter through an arched tunnel that leads to the main stage.  ...

Tampere Theatre is one of the oldest theatres in Finland. Kaarle Halme, a pioneer of dramatic art, founded the Tampere Theatre with the help of the city´s businessmen and indrustrialists in 1904. Altogether the theatre will hold......

The speciality of the Lappia House building is the mildly rounded mountain top motive of the roof. It is characteristic of Alvar Aalto's aim to soften the forms of the buildings and to adjust them into the environment. Lappia......