2019 Savonlinna Opera Festival
A most picturesque town in the heart of Europe's largest lake district in eastern Finland. Reached by a one-hour flight from Helsinki or 3-hour train journey.
The centre of the town is the medieval Olavinlinna Castle, the main [covered] venue for the summer opera festival on a stage built inside the walls of the castle affording amazing acoustics.
It is a breathtakingly beautiful destination for truly unforgettable opera visit.
A stopover for 2 nights in Helsinki is also recommended.
ABOUT THE 2019 SEASON
The season’s new production is Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in this production by Kari Heiskanen.
The Opera Festival Choir will have a magnificent chance to shine in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor in Kerimäki Church on 12 July 2019.
Two old favourites are back on the programme: Verdi’s Rigoletto, an agonisingly tear-jerking classic in which the drama unfolds in some of the world’s best-known arias, and Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio, a carefree, thought-provoking story about cultural encounter – a topic that never ages.
La Sca-la, Milan is bringing to Savonlinna Verdi’s seldom-heard I masnadieri and a gala concert, while even the Castle swifts and swallows will start to dance in the Wiener Volksoper’s production of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.
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NEW PRODUCTION
2019 > July 12
- Surtitles: in English
Conductor: Jaakko Kuusisto
Chorus master: Matti Hyökki
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
Soloists include Tuuli Takala, Marjukka Tepponen, Jussi Myllys, Sami Luttinen
No of Acts
Duration
Genre
Religious
NEW PRODUCTION
2019 > July 04 | 06 | 09 | 13 | 23 | 25
- Surtitles: in English
Conductor
Frédéric Chaslin
No of Acts
2
Duration
2h 15m
Genre
Opera Buffa
Other Information
CASTING INFORMATION
Stage director: Kari Heiskanen
Cast includes: Laura Verrecchia, Ville Rusanen, Alexey Tatarintsev, Raffaele Raffio, Shavleg Armasi, Päivi Pylvänäinen, Joonas Asikainen.
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
2019 > July 05 | 08 | 10 | 16 | 19
- Surtitles: in English
Conductor
Philippe Auguin
No of Acts
Three
Duration
Approx. 2h
Genre
Melodramma
Other Information
CASTING INFORMATION
Stage director: David McVicar
Cast includes: Sami Luttinen, Emanuela Pascu, Juha Kotilainen, Anu Ontronen, Ivan Magrì.
Singers of the leading roles to be announced later.
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
2019 > July 15 | 17 | 20
- Surtitles: in English
The legendary La Scala, Milan was Verdi’s own opera house and it still stands in a league of its own in the operatic world. ThIS production of I masnadieri [directed by David McVicar] will just have been premiered in Milan before it comes in Savonlinna.
Conductor
Michele Mariotti
Staging
David McVicar
No of Acts
Four parts
Duration
approx. 2h 15m
Genre
Melodramma
Other Information
CASTING INFORMATION
Cast includes: Michele Pertusi, Fabio Sartori, Massimo Cavalletti, Alessandro Spina
Chorus of Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala
2019 > July 22 | 24 | 26 | 27
- Surtitles: in English
No of Acts
3
Duration
2h 15m
Genre
Sex, Lies & Opera
Other Information
CASTING INFORMATION
Conductor: Kalle Kuusava
Stage director: Katariina Lahti
Cast includes: Elena Gorshunova, Claire de Sévigné, Jussi Myllys, Jonathan Winell, Petri Lindroos, Sebastian Wirnitzer.
Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra
2019 > July 30 | 31 August 01 | 02 | 03
- Surtitles: in English
Conductor
Alfred Eschwe
Staging
Robert Meyer
No of Acts
3
Duration
Genre
Comic
Other Information
CASTING INFORMATION
Cast includes: Carsten Süss, Morten Frank Larsen, Ursula Pfitzner, Melba Ramos, Anja-Nina Bahrmann, Rebecca Nelsen, Juliette Khalil, Günther Haumer, Alexandre Beuchat, Martina Mikeli? , Annely Peebo, Szabolcs Brickner, Alexander Pinderak, Kurt Schreibmayer, Daniel Ohlenschläger, Robert Meyer, Jeffrey Treganza.
The Orchestra and Choir of the Volksoper Wien
The Vienna State Ballet