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Atte Kilpinen named Honorary Patron of the Helsinki Contemporary Opera Festival 2024

 

Atte Kilpinen is a choreographer, dancer, and the first soloist dancer of the Finnish National Ballet. He is originally from Turku and has worked across Finland and around the world, including a two-year engagement with the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier.

Atte's relationship with musical theatre and especially opera is long-standing, having worked in an opera house for almost 10 years.

 

“Opera has a lot of power. As a dancer, I am used to constant movement and seeing crowds of people. However, in opera and other musical theatre, one must calm down and focus on listening and watching. Nowadays, we live in a social media world with constant stimuli. Opera offers a counterbalance to this and helps find calmness within oneself. In opera, I can focus only on emotions, which is the essence of art. I enjoy opera because it is unfamiliar and new to me.”

Atte looks forward to seeing as many performances and productions as possible and hopes that the festival will make experimental musical theatre and opera accessible to new audiences.

 

“It's great that there is so much happening in Finland outside the opera house. This festival brings different musical theatre and opera cultures close to the audience and lowers the threshold to come and watch performances.  I don't always understand opera, but when something resonates, it truly resonates, and that's what matters most to me."

Photos by Nils Krogell.

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Tickets and arrival

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Ticket sales and reservations

(+358) 0600 900 900

(€2/start.min +dvm/mpm)

Mon-Sat 9 - 21, Sun 10 - 18

Alexander Theatre

Entry: Albertinkatu 32, 00180 Helsinki

Doors open one hour before the show.

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Alexander Theatre ticket office

Tel. (+358)09 676 980

Mon-Fri 12-18 & Sat-Sun 12-17

Bulevardi 27, 00180 Helsinki

Group tickets (minimum of 10 people) available at the price of a senior ticket. They can be purchased at the Alexander Theatre box office, phone number 09 676 980 (Bulevardi 27), as well as from Lippupiste outlets and telephone service, phone number 0600 900 900 (€2/start.min + local/network charge). Please note that group tickets are not available for purchase online. Professional tickets (Theatre Card, Finnish Composers, and Musicians' Union members) are sold only at the Alexander Theatre box office. Wheelchair and companion tickets are also available exclusively from the theatre’s own box office.

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