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Audience outreach

About audience outreach

Learn more about our audience outreach projects.

Audience outreach spreads the word about opera and ballet

Our audience outreach projects cover all of Finland, offering hundreds of activities each year. These include interactive artistic experiences as well as performances and events targeted at specific audience groups. The majority of our activities are free, but some performances may have a small entrance fee.

Our aim is to spread the word about opera and ballet and encourage people of all ages to get involved in artistic expression. In our projects, we want to foster a safe and inclusive atmosphere, where every participant is valued and capable.

In 2023, we visited 47 municipalities and reached approximately 45,000 people through our projects. We collaborate with various organisations and institutions, including arts institutions, universities, museums, municipalities, daycare centres, residential homes, and organisations representing different industries.

Everyone is most welcome to join in!

audience outreach in numbers

47

tour localities

313

performances

274

workshops

45000

visitors and participants

*figures from 2023

What’s on

The enrolment period for the performances and events listed below is currently underway or will begin soon. For more information, exact dates and enrolment instructions, please visit the event pages.

What we do

For Kids from 0 to 6
For schools
For young people
Continuing education and adults
Free events
Dress rehearsals
culture companions

More than 30 years of audience outreach work

The House of the Sun and Carmen were the Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s first inclusive artistic-pedagogical projects within audience outreach. They were implemented together with students from Sibelius Academy, part of the University of the Arts Helsinki, artists from the London Sinfonietta, as well as schools in the Greater Helsinki region. This project was the first of its kind in Finland.

Over the years, we have worked with audience groups of all ages, making music, composing and moving together with prisoners, the homeless, and people in drug rehabilitation. We have also organised sign language and voice interpretation of performances and won an international award for the best children’s opera of the year in 2017.

We are at your service

Please contact us if you have any questions about audience outreach in the FNOB

Producer, opera productions Kirsi Järvinen +358 50 590 9930
Producer, ballet productions Sonja Lipponen +358 50 430 8093
Customer service representative, dress rehearsals and culture companions, Malla  Vanhanen +358 9 4030 2330, yleisotyo[at]opera.fi
Customer service representative, ticket send outs for Art Testers, Minna Pehkonen

firstname.lastname[at]opera.fi


Audience Outreach
Finnish National Opera and Ballet
Helsinginkatu 58 (PL 176)
00251 Helsinki
Finland