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Welcome to the Savonlinna Opera Festival – media accreditation is now open

Savonlinna’s super summer of Czech culture offers opera, photographic art and beer

Summer 2024 performances of Káťa Kabanová cancelled and The Bartered Bride on 3 August moved to a new date

Karita Mattila and the Prague National Theatre will perform together at the Savonlinna Opera Festival next summer

Savonlinna Opera Festival Awarded the Sustainable Travel Finland Mark

A great summer of opera 2024 – Repertoire out now

School of Gaming and Savonlinna Opera Festival to Premiere Opera in Minecraft

Media accreditation is now open for summer 2023

Samu Haber and Katie Melua to perform at the Savonlinna Opera Festival 

Savonlinna Opera Festival shortlisted for an international award

Mika Nevalainen appointed commercial director of Savonlinna Opera Festival

Ville Matvejeff to take overall responsibility for the Savonlinna Opera Festival

3 highlights of the Savonlinna Opera Festival 2023

Ville Matvejeff to continue another term as the Artistic Director of the Savonlinna Opera Festival

Jan Schweiger appointed as the new chorus master

Olavinlinna’s revamped auditorium is better than ever before

The stars of opera will shine bright again – summer 2022

Opera performances postponed by another year – concerts and singing competition will go ahead this summer

Wardruna concert postponed by a year – additional seats available for summer 2022

Savonlinna Opera Festival prepares for next summer – safe distancing measures at Olavinlinna, with King Roger cancelled

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Karita Mattila and the Prague National Theatre will perform together at the Savonlinna Opera Festival next summer

Karita Mattila and the Prague National Theatre will perform together at the Savonlinna Opera Festival next summer

The Prague National Theatre, which will be visiting Savonlinna in the summer of 2024, will perform key works of Czech opera at a concert in Olavinlinna on Wednesday 31 July 2024. The ensemble of soloists from Prague will be magnificently complemented at the concert by Karita Mattila.

LA MATTILA MAKES HER DEBUT

LA MATTILA MAKES HER DEBUT

Finland has produced outstanding artists on the international music scene, from composers to conductors, from soloists to singers, from classical music to heavy metal. And then there is La Mattila.

Don Giovanni’s miraculous career path

Don Giovanni’s miraculous career path

The international opera scene is usually dominated by singers who chose a career as a musician at a very early stage. Perfect exceptions are rare – but the baritone Yuriy Yurchuk is one such case.

Nabucco and the greatest crisis of our time

Nabucco and the greatest crisis of our time

When the most stirring choral scene in the opera Nabucco rings out next summer inside the stone walls of the Olavinlinna castle, its message will leave no one unmoved. From the very beginning, it has had a wider significance than just opera. In this rendition, it affects every one of us.

In the seed of anger lies the greatest love

In the seed of anger lies the greatest love

Kaija Saariaho’s opera Adriana Mater has been topical ever since it was completed. Set in an unnamed location, the story begins on the brink of a conflict that is about to erupt into war. Although the guns eventually fall silent, the experiences of evil live on in people’s minds. How does one deal with such a situation? In the seed of anger lies the greatest love.

Olavinlinna, a unique opera stage

Olavinlinna, a unique opera stage

Olavinlinna Castle is one of the best preserved medieval castles in the Nordic countries and a valuable heritage site. As a setting for the Opera Festival, it is magnificent, unique – and very challenging.

Nabucco

Nabucco

6.7. – 26.7.2024

This new production for the summer of 2024 is a powerful portrayal of the lust for power and lost freedom.

Lohengrin

Lohengrin

5.7. – 18.7.2024

Finally – here is Karita Mattila’s debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. She is a cunning sorceress and deep-voiced plotter in Wagner’s opulent Lohengrin.

Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni

10.7. – 25.7.2024

An exasperating showman, the quicksilver of eroticism, Don Giovanni promises women love, and here we go again.

The Bartered Bride

The Bartered Bride

27.7. – 1.8.2024

Witty and sharp, expressive and danceable for the whole family, The Bartered Bride is a part of the Czech DNA.

Adriana Mater

Adriana Mater

2.8. – 4.8.2024

Kaija Saariaho’s acclaimed opera about war, violence, hope and love.

The Prague National Theatre & Karita Mattila

The Prague National Theatre & Karita Mattila

The ensemble of the National Theatre Opera, Prague, Národní divadlo, will be magnificently complemented by Karita Mattila, one of the most important Janáček sopranos of her generation, singing the dramatic role of Kostelnička Buryjovka in Jenůfa for the first time in Finland.

Peter Bence

Peter Bence

What comes to mind when you think of a piano recital? This time it’s something completely different.