Katri Helena’s stunning career ends on August 16 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Such a spectacle is coming.
Before the blue and white sound is silent, it will echo more handsome than ever before.
Katri Helena79, asked for a “stylish show” from the Working Party of the Last Evening Concert.
The legend is prepared for the Olympic Stadium by meditating, singing his beloved songs and chatting.
– I look at him, and he is as angel as an angel, describes the conductor Leri Leskinen For Iltalehti.
Leskinen has moved in practice.
– We have been training the songs alone. Let’s go through the songs, sing and keep Katr’s instrument in the mood.
There is one statement from the members of the working group interviewed by Iltalehti: it is a great honor to be involved.
– Every person in Finland knows who Katri Helena is and recognizes the songs. This show starts from the artist and everything has been thought about how we can support these works. Whatever the viewer at any point in the Olympic Stadium, the artist must be well visible, says a visual designer Pekka Olva.
The planning of the concert of the Olympic Stadium, which will take place on August 16, began last fall. At that time the screenwriter and director Paula Vesala went through the song list with Leskinen and made a suggestion to Katri Helena.
– He hoped for a show -like show. His gigs do not include any special tricks, but surprises will be seen. It becomes big from the songs, says Vesala, who has been sweeping through YLE and MTV’s video archives for the gig.
Paula Vesala writes and directs Katri Helena’s last farewell gig. According to him, the process has been emotional. Inka Soveri
According to Pekka Olava, Katri Helena’s stage for Katri Helena’s gig will be “exceptionally big”.
– There is no such big iron pallet in Finland. It’s as big as it can fit there. The width of Ruisrock and Pori Jazz is 41 meters from the edge, which is the largest stage in Finland. After all, this is a massive system compared to that, Olva says.
The 70 -meter -wide iron platform will be set up at the beginning of the concert week and will be completed the day before the gig. Light designer Pekka Martin Some special lights have been rented from Central Europe, but otherwise the quality technology needed for the concert can be found in the country.
Katri Helena’s trademark is a blue and white sound. It will appear as a visual element at the concert. Pete anikari
World -class show
So what does it look like? The Olympic Stadium can accommodate over 40,000 people at concerts and there is still room for Permanno. It is certain that the Vello Sea will bring its memorable atmosphere to Stadika.
Katria is accompanied by a big band of 20 people, led by conductor Leri Leskinen, with players and surprise names familiar from the Life Only program.
Leri Leskinen has known Katri Helena for years. His father was a friend of the late Timo Kalaoja, and Leri has been dealing with Katri since the little boy. Anna Hämäläinen
According to Pekka Olava, a visual designer, the audience can follow Katri Helena and video content from three big screening, which carries the performance and supports the artist’s performance.
– Katri does not want some “screen saver” on the screens. We show the live picture specifically. He has a long career behind him, which has different material since the 1960s, and it is shown, he laughs.
Video designer Saku Väänänen Confirm that the star will be visible to the back stand.
– The concert will be a unique entity of Katr’s career.
Two visual elements shine with their absence at Katri Helena’s farewell concert.
– There is no fire. This is not a Rammstein-type job. There will be no dancers either. Nothing else has been excluded, Olva says.
He adds that some pyrotechnics will be seen at the concert.
– I can’t reveal it exactly because they will be surprising moments.
Yle captures the show in its entirety for posterity, and this is also taken into account in technical implementation. The last evening is also historically the first Swan labeled major event in Finland and the Nordic countries.
Katri Helena’s Olympic Stadium concert is making a team of hundreds of people and a long project, so Olava says the costs are in line with it.
– That is done as ambitiously as it can. Even if the music is calmer, that does not mean that there is less stuff on the stage than some young artist today. Actually, it’s the opposite, he says.
In recent years many artists Cheek To Jari Sillanpää And the PMMP band has performed spectacularly at Stadika. According to the team, Katri Helena’s gig will not disappear in spectacular spectacles.
– Katri Helena has a huge musical heritage, and visually we wanted to respect it – to bring dignity to the stage, but also surprise and beauty that speaks to the audience of many generations, says light designer Pekka Martti.