Opera and Ballet communications department is out of office from 02/07 to 29/07/2021. We will answer to your requests about the press tickets, interviews and press photos after that. If you have forgot your password to our media bank, you can get a new by using a link “forgot your password?” on the front page of the media bank.
Register to subscribe to bulletins here. Please send an e-mail to press@opera.fi to notify us of changes in your contact details.
The photos in the Opera and Ballet media bank may be freely used by the media in connection with stories on the FNOB.
Register to receive user IDs for the media bank. Note that it may take 1 to 3 working days to process the registration request. In urgent cases, please contact the FNOB Press Office. Please send an e-mail to press@opera.fi to notify us of changes in your contact details.
Please contact the FNOB Press Office to submit requests for interviews with any performers of the Opera or Ballet or other employees of the FNOB. We will forward your request and provide journalists and photographers with visitor passes and photo permits as necessary.
Journalists and critics writing about the Opera and Ballet may request press tickets from the FNOB Press Office.
Other media representatives may purchase tickets to any performance at a media discount one week before the performance, unless the performance is sold out. The discount is granted separately for each production and performance and does not apply to returns. The media discount is granted on display of a membership card of the Union of Journalists in Finland or an affidavit from your employer testifying that you work in media.
The annual report and financial statement of the Foundation of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet is published online in PDF format (in Finnish). If you require a printed copy of the annual report, you may request one from the FNOB Press Office.
Communications Manager Katja Jokinen tel. +358 9 4030 2322
Communications Specialist Petra Rönkä tel. +358 50 4132 421 (out of office from 25/06 to 28/07)
– opera productions
Communications Specialist Jussi Iltanen tel. +358 9 4030 2223, +358 50 307 1105 (out of office from 25/06 to 01/08)
– ballet productions and ballet school
press[at]opera.fi, firstname.lastname[at]opera.fi