Summer of Concerts

This is how we'll delight you with concerts this summer

Though opera performances are postponed until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Opera Festival delights audiences with concerts and a singing competition in summer 2021.

A Night by Lake Saimaa and the visiting performance of YL Male Voice Choir are relocated from Olavinlinna to Kerimäki Church. The Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition will take place in Savonlinna Hall. The YL Male Voice Choir concert has also been rescheduled.

Karita Mattila’s orchestral galas will be cancelled, but her new performances with a pianist in Kerimäki Church will complete the summer’s concert repertoire.

Read the news about changes to the summer 2021 festival here.

The following concerts will go ahead this summer

A Night by Lake Saimaa – Marjukka Tepponen, Waltteri Torikka and Jukka Nykänen
Kerimäki Church
Wed 14 July 2021 at 7 p.m.
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YL Male Voice Choir
Kerimäki Church
Fri 16 July 2021 at 6 p.m. (rescheduled from the original date of 8 July)
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Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition
Savonlinna Hall
Sun 18 July 2021
First round at 11 a.m.
Finals at 7 p.m.
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Karita Mattila & Ville Matvejeff
Kerimäki Church
Sat 24 July and Mon 26 July at 7 p.m.
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Have you bought tickets? Here’s what to do

Keep an eye on your inbox, as we’ve contacted all concert ticket holders via email or text message. Your original reservation remains valid, but due to the venue and date change of the concerts, we’re kindly asking you to confirm it. If you didn’t get our message and you would like to keep your concert ticket(s) for summer 2021, please contact our customer service.

If you want to move this summer’s concert ticket(s) to summer 2022, exchange the value of the ticket for a gift voucher, or request a refund, please follow the link below for further instructions.

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Safe concerts

We want to make certain that you can enjoy our concerts without safety concerns or other worries. This is why we will limit audience numbers and ensure safe distancing according to any restrictions that are in place.

Please stay at home if you feel unwell.
Kindly arrive in good time. Due to safety practices, entrance and moving around the venue may take longer than usual.
Please keep a safe distance from other visitors. We will ensure safe distancing in the audience.
Please practice good hand hygiene and cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue or your sleeve if you need to do so.

We will inform you about wearing face masks or any other guidelines regarding large events closer to the time.

Kerimäki Church

A popular concert venue and one of the world’s largest wooden churches, Kerimäki Church is located approximately 20 kilometres from the centre of Savonlinna. Take a closer look at the church and its location on the Visit Savonlinna website.

Competition excitement at Savonlinna Hall

The first round and finals of the Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition will take place at Savonlinna Hall. Constructed of wood, Savonlinna Hall is located on the picturesque Casino island close to the town centre, meaning there’s time for lunch on the market square or a walk around the nature trail on Sulosaari island between competition rounds. Savonlinna train station is also close by, at the other end of the bridge to Savonlinna Hall.

YL Male Voice Choir

16.7.2021

The concert by Finland’s most famous male voice choir, the YL Male Voice Choir, brings two quintessentially Finnish musical artists together in a completely new way.

Marjukka Tepponen, Waltteri Torikka & Jukka Nykänen

14.7.2021

This feelgood concert will feature at least the timeless ”Speak Softly, Love” and the moving widow’s song from the opera Porgy and Bess. The array of opera, operetta, musical and film tune.

Wardruna

31.7.2022

Experience ancient Viking mysticism in the darkening late summer night.

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

The pandemic outlook for this July is still so uncertain that opera performances and the orchestral galas with Karita Mattila will be cancelled. Other concerts and the national Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition will go ahead as planned. Please see here for further information.

Opera performances postponed until summer 2022 – information about tickets

Do you have opera tickets for summer 2021? Read more here.

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

We will maintain ticket holders’ seat reservations and move them to the following summer. The new concert date at Olavinlinna has been set for Sunday 31 July 2022.