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Savonlinna Opera Festival 1.7.–27.7.2011
The most significant event in Savonlinna and one of the most famous festivals in the whole country is the Savonlinna Opera Festival. For decades, the festival has gathered the high and mighty and the great unwashed together to enjoy opera masterpieces and spectacular singing in the medieval Olavinlinna Castle. And how beatifully the arias echo from the robust rocky walls! The classic operas, medieval setting, the Lake Saimaa archipelago and the magnificent Finish summer create a combination that makes your heart sing.
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Art Centre Retretti
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Married to an Artist, the main exhibition of the Retretti Art Centre’s summer 2011 programme, will present artist couples who worked in Finland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition will comprise works by such well-known masters as Werner Holmberg, Victor Westerholm, Juho Rissanen, Elin Danielson-Gambogi and Alwar Cawén, as well as works by their lesser-known spouses, Anna Glad, Hilma Alander, Hilda Flodin, Raffaello Gambogi and Ragni Cawén. Married to an Artist will bring a new perspective to Finland’s Golden Age and Early Modernism. The exhibition will be curated by Emerita Professor Riitta Konttinen. » See more information |
