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CircOpera

Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, Finland
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Important Info
Type: Opera
City: Helsinki, Finland
Starts at: 19:00
Intervals: 1
Duration: 2h 15min
Sung in: Italian

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Overview

PERFORMED IN FINNISH, GERMAN, FRENCH

Ladies, gentlemen and little ones! See the world’s strongest man and hear the world’s largest circus orchestra! Experience hair-raising choral sound and an acrobat hanging by the hair! You will not see this anywhere else!

Opera and circus – when these two grandiose art forms were first put together, the result was a mind-blowing spectacle that sold out lightning fast. In autumn 2019 the Opera House will again turn into a circus, as CircOpera makes a rapturous re-entrance.

The show by international music and acrobatics stars makes for an ideal first experience of either art form. Naturally, there’s a story about looking for love, and finding it – we are at the opera, after all.

Audience feedback

“CircOpera was exactly the kind of cheerful and energetic performance you need to get through the pessimism of the Finnish autumn! Enchanting, magical, exciting!”

“Excellent entertainment. I warmly recommend this to everyone looking for a fun and relaxing evening.”

“An incredible show. Excitement and exhilaration for children, fueled by music. Visually impressive and wonderful for adults, too. I recommend this for all ages. Truly entertaining and memorable. In the words of a 10-year-old: This was the best birthday present you could imagine!”

“CircOpera was my best ever experience at the opera. Beautiful, wonderful, bold, exciting, fun, exultant. The applause and yelling of the audience was just as authentic.”

Opera hit parade

CircOpera presents a veritable hit parade of opera numbers suitable for both first-time visitors and hardcore opera fans, including the following:

‘Au fond du temple saint’, duet from the opera Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet

‘Flight of the bumble-bee’ from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

‘Largo al factotum’, aria from the opera Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini

March from the opera The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev

Meditation from the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet

‘Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben’, aria from the opera Zaide by W.A. Mozart

‘O Fortuna’ from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

…and favourites by Bellini, Handel, Rossini, Shostakovich, J. Strauss and Verdi

Ballet Finland

The dance in CircOpera is by the ballet company Ballet Finland, managed by Jouka Valkama.

Venue Info

Finnish National Opera - Helsinki
Location   Helsinginkatu 58 PL 176

The Finnish National Opera is a Finnish opera company based in Helsinki. Its home base is the Opera House on Töölönlahti bay in Töölö, which opened in 1993, and is state-owned through Senate Properties. The Opera House features two auditoriums, the main auditorium with 1,350, seats and a smaller studio auditorium with 300-500 seats.

Regular opera performances began in Finland in 1873 with the founding of the Finnish Opera by Kaarlo Bergbom. Prior to that, opera had been performed in Finland sporadically by touring companies, and on occasion by Finnish amateurs, the first such production being The Barber of Seville in 1849. However, the Finnish Opera company soon plunged into a financial crisis and folded in 1879. During its six years of operation, Bergbom’s opera company had given 450 performances of a total of 26 operas, and the company had managed to demonstrate that opera can be sung in Finnish too. After the disbandment of the Finnish Opera, the opera audiences of Helsinki had to confine themselves to performances of visiting opera companies and occasional opera productions at the Finnish National Theatre.

The reincarnation of the Finnish opera institution took place about 30 years later. A group of notable social and cultural figures, led by the international star soprano Aino Ackté, founded the Domestic Opera in 1911. From the very beginning, the opera decided to engage both foreign and Finnish artists. A few years later the Domestic Opera was renamed the Finnish Opera in 1914. In 1956, the Finnish Opera was, in turn, taken over by the Foundation of the Finnish National Opera, and acquired its present name.

Between 1918 and 1993 the home of the opera was the Alexander Theater, which had been assigned to the company on a permanent basis. The home was inaugurated with an opening performance of Verdi’s Aida. When the first dedicated opera house in Finland was finally completed and inaugurated in 1993, the old opera house was given back its original name, the Alexander Theater, after the Tsar Alexander II.

The Finnish National Opera has some 30 permanently engaged solo singers, a professional choir of 60 singers and its own orchestra of 120 members. The Ballet has 90 dancers from 17 countries. All together, the opera has a staff of 735.

Past music directors and chief conductors have included Armas Järnefelt (1932–36), Tauno Pylkkänen (1960-1967), Okko Kamu (1996–2000), Muhai Tang (2003–2006), and Mikko Franck (2006-2013). With the 2013-2014 season, the Finnish mezzo-soprano Lilli Paasikivi became artistic director of the company, and the German conductor Michael Güttler became principal conductor with the company. The initial contracts for both Paasikivi and Güttler are for 3 years. Since 2008, Kenneth Greve has served as artistic director of Finnish National Ballet. His current contract is through 2018.

The Finnish National Opera stages four to six premieres a year, including a world premiere of at least one Finnish opera, such as Rasputin by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Some 20 different operas in 140 performances are found in the opera's schedule yearly. The Ballet arranges some 110 performances annually. The Finnish National Opera has some 250,000 visitors a year.

Important Info
Type: Opera
City: Helsinki, Finland
Starts at: 19:00
Intervals: 1
Duration: 2h 15min
Sung in: Italian
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