Helsinki Festival 2011

Tristan und Isolde

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Sellars and Bill Viola's sumptuously visual production of the classic work will be seen at the Helsinki Festival 18 and 21 August 2012. Tickets are now on sale!

The Helsinki Festival shall be organised 17 August - 2 September 2012.

The Night of the Arts

will again be taking place in the Finnish capital on Thursday 23 August 2012.

A busy programme will be unfolding across the length and breadth of the city, as residents and visitors alike make the most of the free events on offer.

Thank you!

Thanks to all who participated in the 2011 Helsinki Festival!

The next Helsinki Festival is organized 17.8.-2.9.2012.

Do you want to take a trip down memory lane and visit last summer's festival website?

Helsinki Festival 2011 website

Night of the arts

Bears, wolves, moose and owls came for a visit to Human Cities. See images.

Debutants — into the future

In the Debutants series, Helsinki Festival in collaboration with Elisa, showcases highly talented artists on the cusp of their professional breakthrough. Read more about the 2011 debutants.

Ateljee Isserlis

Helsinki Festival and the OP-Pohjola Group joined forces to organise a unique concert series. Read more.

Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:20 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Sellars and Bill Viola’s Tristan und Isolde at Helsinki Festival

Helsinki Festival will be bringing Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde to Helsinki's new Music Centre on 18 and 21 August 2012. This truly unique and sumptuously visual production of the classic work, a collaboration between conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, director Peter Sellars and video artist Bill Viola, will expand beyond the confines of the stage to take over the entire concert hall. Salonen will be conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and joined by an impressive roster of soloists, including Gary Lehman, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen and Jukka Rasilainen. Tickets are now on sale through Lippupalvelu.

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 13:20 184 000 visitors - thank you all!

The overall number of visitors to the Helsinki Festival, which finished on Sunday 4 September, reached 184,000. Ticketed events attracted 53,500 visitors, whilst 130,200 art lovers participated in the free events.