The Nutcracker – Anna Airola, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra

at Temppeliaukion Kirkko, Helsinki

The Nutcracker – Anna Airola, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is at Temppeliaukion Kirkko in Helsinki on Friday 18 December 2026 at 20:30.

Date: Fri 18 Dec · 20:30
Promoter: UMO-Säätiö

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Temppeliaukion Kirkko, Lutherinkatu 3, 00100 · Get directions

Showtimes on Friday 18 December

Fri 18 Dec · 2 showtimes: 18:00 and 20:30

Fri 18 Dec 18:00 20:30

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What to expect

The Nutcracker – Anna Airola, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is a jazz blues concert at Temppeliaukion Kirkko, 5.2 km from the centre of Helsinki. It is a good pick for music fans and a night out with friends. There are 2 showtimes that day, so you can choose one that fits your plans. If you want to make a night of it, 11 other events are on in Helsinki the same day.

About the event

From the organiser, as published on Ticketmaster.

Anna Airola & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra -- The Nutcracker Suite & Tale The Nutcracker, the most enchanting jazzy fairy tale of Christmas, which sold-out venues in the past years, is coming again! The storyteller is Anna Airola and the music is provided by the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra.

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra plays Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece, The Nutcracker. Beloved actress Anna Airola brings the story to life and reads the fairy tale written by E.T.A.

Hoffmann about the Christmas night adventure of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

Note! The fairy tale will be read in Finnish.

Glittering winter forests, an enchanted marzipan castle, toys that miraculously come alive... The Nutcracker Tale is full of magic and exciting twists!

The plot of The Nutcracker, one of Tchaikovsky's most famous and acclaimed ballets, is based on E.T.A. Hoffman's Christmas story.

The ballet was premiered in December 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and in 1960 Ellington and Strayhorn arranged and recorded their own interpretation of the beloved piece. The jazz adaptation has in recent years become a UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra's Christmas tradition, which is now spiced up with a fairy tale.

Let yourself be carried away by the fairy tale -- and jazz!

Note! The fairy tale will be read in Finnish.

The concert is suitable for the whole family, but especially with the smallest concertgoers, we recommend preparing for loud volumes with earmuffs or plugs.

Doors open 30 minutes before the showtime. Duration c. 70 min, no intermission.

Video: Anna Airola (b. 1994) is a popular and award-winning actress hailing from Kokkola. Airola, who graduated from the Theatre Academy in 2022, has been chosen as the Best TV Actress of the Year and awarded with the Kultainen Venla prize for her role as Oona in Yle's Aikuiset series.

Airola, who grew up in a musical family, sings in the Ykspihlajan kino-orkesteri and has played tenor h