Oulu Music Festival 2020

Year 2020 marked the 30th anniversary of Oulu Music Festival, and the program included a wonderful set of concerts. The flagship performance was supposed to be a joined concert of Kuopio Symphony and Oulu Symphony, together with famous opera singer Matti Salminen.

Everything was ready for a great spectacle, but after the first chamber music concerts and musical concerts, on the 5th day of the festival, Covid-19 had hit Finland so badly, that all events needed to be cancelled. This was a shocking news to the festival organization, the performers and the audience, and so suddenly basically the whole world closed down and fell silent.