Year 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the births of two great opera composers: Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. In honour of the occasion, the Opera Festival is staging one of the most popular operas of all times, Verdi’s La traviata. The other Verdi production for 2013 is Macbeth. As a tribute to Wagner, the Festival is reviving the production of Lohengrin directed by Roman Hovenbitzer and premiered in summer 2011. The best-known opera by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila is also in the repertoire. The Seal Opera, festival’s fourth opera for children was conceived and devised with children in Finnish junior schools. The Savonlinna Opera Festival has been acting host to visiting opera houses since 1987. In 2013, the Mikhailovsky Theatre from St. Petersburg will be bringing along its production of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and, to culminate the jubilee Verdi year, A Masked Ball.
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The Savonlinna Opera Festival is one of the most radiant and internationally most significant events in the Finnish cultural calendar. Read more

Eugene Onegin is one of the most popular titles in the world’s operatic repertoire. The new version of the famous opera prepared by Musical Director and Principal Conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov and Stage Director Andriy Zholdak was premiered at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg on October 26. Read more