The Board of Directors of the Finnish National Opera Foundation decided on the appointment on Wednesday (14.11), after it had proposed him for the job two weeks earlier. Also the […]
Moving pictures experience
Every year, when it’s dark and cold, the Avanto festival presents the most innovative tendencies in music and visual arts. This year’s edition focus on films under the title of […]
Bon Jovi tickets on sale next Thursday
The last time Jon Bon Jovi and the rest of the group played in Finland was in 2000, in Turku and Helsinki. The band’s greatest hits album Cross Road from […]
Nominations for Finlandia Junior award announced
Nominated for the 2007 Finlandia Junior prize are: > Tatun ja Patun Suomi (‘Tatu and Patu’s Finland‘) by Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen > Taikuri Into Kiemura by Jukka Itkonen […]
Film producers end the strike
Even though no final promises have been made, the producers trust the Parliament to make the right decisions. They base their trust on the fact that both the Education and […]
Iron Maiden in Helsinki as part of biggest ever Nordic tour
Tickets for the Finnish part of the Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 08 will go on sale next Monday, the 12th of November, via Lippupalvelu. Iron Maiden will release […]
YLE withdraws from Helsinki music hall project
The financially-strapped public broadcaster was to be one of the three financiers of the venture and pay 25 percent of the building costs. The City of Helsinki would also contribute […]
Danish dancer nominated for director post at National Ballet
Greve, who is 39, has previously worked as a dancer with, among others, the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet and […]
The grandchildren of Bodom
{mosimage}In the summer of 1960 three teenagers were savagely murdered while camping by the shore of Bodom Lake, in Espoo. 47 years later, the case is still unsolved, but not […]
Finnish musicians get “humiliating” treatment at U.S. airport
The ordeal took place on the 13th of September after Karjalainen and fellow musicians Ninni Poijärvi and Mika Kuokkanen had arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for a three week […]
Discover Giotto, the first great Italian master painter, in Annantalo
Sculptor and architect Giotto di Bondone (c.1267-1337) is considered not only as one of the first Italian, but one of the first European master painters that would have a great […]
Mika Kaurismäki opens Brazilian restaurant
The restaurant will have a capacity of about 300 people and will offer Brazilian food, wine, beer and other drinks. There will also be live music on offer at Bossa, […]
Next Bond theme by Ville Valo?
According to Daily Star columnist Kim Dawson, long-time Bond soundtrack writers Don Black and David Arnold have dumped British singer Amy Winehouse as their favourite to record the next 007 […]