The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring a mix of new productions and returning ...
Kaija Saariaho, Finland’s leading opera composer, was working on a piece called “Innocence” and wanted one of the characters ...
Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence delves into guilt, grief and anger over a phenomenon largely thought of as distinctly American ...
School shootings are a tragically common occurrence in the United States, but rarely do they grace the stage of one of the ...
The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s final work is an immersive, astonishing achievement, viscerally depicting a group of ...
Vilma Jää, a folk music graduate, plays a pivotal role in the Met Opera's 'Innocence,' showcasing Finnish traditions while ...
So I shouldn’t be troubled by the way the late Kaija Saariaho turned a fictional school shooting into a work of modernist ...
Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” a powerful and kaleidoscopic depiction of mass violence and its aftermath, has arrived at the ...
Vilma Jää plays a pivotal role in the Met Opera's 'Innocence', merging Finnish folk traditions with contemporary opera, ...
Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the ...
I noticed that the Simon Stone production of Kaija Saariaho’s INNOCENCE, which had its local premiere last night at the Met, ...