Performances

Magnificent Eugene Onegin opens the autumn season at the Finnish National Opera with a lineup of top-quality soloists including Soile Isokoski, Tommi Hakala and Jorma Silvasti.

There is something for everyone in Mozart's The Magic Flute: entertainment, romance, excitement and comedy.

Verdi's Aida is a magnificent and spectacular grand opera but also a sensitive and intimate tale of the forbidden love of an Egyptian military commander and an Ethiopian slave.

Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore is a perennial favourite among comic operas. And no wonder: it is a happy blend of the mishaps of lovesick characters and suave Italian melodies.

On the plains of Ostrobothnia, the dream of freedom is strong. This is truly a national opera and a piece of Finnish history too, besides being perhaps the most successful Finnish opera of all time.

The music in Madama Butterfly is incredibly beautiful and heart-achingly poignant. Elisabet Strid and Judith Howarth appear as Cio-Cio-San.

Die tote Stadt is a fascinatingly decadent and dream-like opera with a great psychological impact. World-famous soprano Camilla Nylund appears in the main role.

If there were ever a competition for the world's most beautiful opera, La bohème would be a strong contender. Puccini wrote some of his finest arias and duets here. The performances will be conducted by maestro Leif Segerstam.

The famous outlaw who lives in Sherwood Forest and is a virtuoso with bow and arrow takes to the main stage of the FNO in a brand new adventure opera for the whole family. The magical Robin Hood premieres in January!

Faust, tired of his life, is prepared to sell his soul to the Devil to regain his youth.

The music in The Merry Widow has everything that an operetta lover could possibly wish for: the wistful Vilia Song, the upbeat dance numbers, the lovely duet 'Love unspoken'...

The opera Aleksis Kivi is an impressive portrayal of how a great mind crumbles in a world that does not understand it and includes some of the author's most beautiful poems.

Daddy's Girl illustrates the history of independent Finland through the life stories of a mother, a daughter and a grandmother.

La Cenerentola, Cinderella, is one of Rossini's most popular operas. The story is the familiar one with the ugly sisters and the prince.

This grand opera by Wagner is like a ritual in which the young Parsifal grows through self-denial and self-awareness into a saviour who liberates those condemned to suffer and becomes King of the Knights of the Grail. The production returns to the repertoire at Easter.

A brilliant stage play and witty music, when properly matched, produce just such a breezy and intoxicatingly light-hearted opera. Performed in Finnish.

Puccini's opera triptych consists of three very different yet mutually complementary elements.