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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. San Francisco Opera will present the American premiere of composer Kaija ...

Making its American premiere on June 1 at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Opera's "Innocence" is a powerful new work by late Finnish contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho. A major plot ...

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, ...

Kaija Sarriaho’s final opera, Innocence, is currently being given its US première performances at San Francisco Opera’s War Memorial Opera House., where I attended this new opera on Friday evening, ...

Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the Metropolitan Opera staged her final opera, Innocence, which premiered in 2021 ...