After two decades in various positions in the telecommunication-IT industry, Hannu Järvensivu turned a new page on his career and joined Finnish National Opera and Ballet in March 2020.

The first assignment was position as an assisting head of the set department, which rapidly evolved to heading the technical design department - and along with it - leading the XR Stage project, which introduces dramatic change to the design process of the live stage production planning by simulation and animated motions of the functional elements.