On Sept. 17, Helsinki Airport passengers will able to experience opera and ballet in a collaboration between Finavia and Finnish National Opera and Ballet.

The two companies will open a visual and audio installation at the airport, where snippets of opera and ballet performed at the Opera House in Töölönlahti, Helsinki, will be projected on one of the walls of the train station.

The installation will be named “The Culture Stage” and will be seen from the long escalators connecting the airport’s train station and terminal.

In a statement, Ulla Serlenius, Finavia’s Helsinki Airport Executive Director said, “‘The Culture Stage’ brings Finnish culture to Helsinki Airport and into a space that is open to everyone and free of charge. Just like culture, the airport is made for everyone, no matter where they come from. More than 15 million people travel through Helsinki Airport each year, and about one-third of passengers come to the airport by train. With this collaboration, we can offer a unique travel experience to a very large number of passengers.”

Gita Kadambi, General Director of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet added, “We want to offer our domestic and international repertoire to an ever-wider audience, and the airport is an excellent and perhaps surprising place for this purpose. Opera and ballet can be enjoyed as short treats, and the huge wall feels like it was made for that.”

The Culture Stage consists of a 12-meter wide and 6.5-meter-tall screen, on which opera and ballet scenes are projected with a video projector and the snippets of works shown are recordings of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s repertoire.

The first collection to be shown will include the ballets “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty” as well as “Tosca,” “Turandot,” and “Don Giovanni.”