In conjunction with the U.S. premiere of Innocence this June, San Francisco Opera will present BEYOND INNOCENCE, a convening for the public and for local and national community organizations ...

SAN FRANCISCO — An uneasy orchestral prelude sets the mood: muffled percussion, brooding woodwinds, anguished strings. The curtain rises and the first voices we ...

The darkest memories and revelations surface at a wedding feast in composer Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing creation Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...

3 Photos: New Look At JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR West End Starring Sam Ryder and More 4 Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Starring Sam Ryder Set across two timelines in modern day Finland, one following the ...

Vilma Jää Brings Herding Calls and Mocking Songs to Met Opera’s Production of 'Innocence' NEW YORK (AP) — When Vilma Jää enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music she never expected to end ...

Beate Mordal as Student #2 (Lilly), Julie Hega as Student #3 (Iris), Rowan Kievits as Student #4 (Anton), Camilo Delgado Díaz as Student #5 (Jerónimo), and Marina Dumont as Sudent #6 (Alexia) in ...

The title of the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence is presumably intended ironically, given that every one of its 13 characters is either racked with guilt or otherwise suffering from ...

Sung in nine languages, with music by one of the world’s most acclaimed composers, Innocence comes to the UK this month. The team behind it reveal how it drew on everything from The Last Supper to ...

A wedding is in full swing. The bride is all smiles. The groom looks distracted. His parents watch proceedings with a sense of concern. Almost simultaneously we see students in a school – scared, ...

A big week for Finnish music and musicians led by Kaija Saariaho’s powerful opera about a school shooting, and a thrilling Bartok performance As if immobilised by an alien force, the audience scarcely ...

It’s a long time since a London opera production got the frenzied advance attention Innocence has received, and that attention is for two quite separate reasons. First, because its 70-year-old Finnish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, left, and folk singer Vilma Jää during a ...