Kaija Saariaho: Innocence

Name: Kaija Saariaho: Innocence
Director: Simon Stone
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 2021-07-10
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Rating: 10
Cast: Magdalena Kožená, Sandrine Piau, Tuomas Pursio, Lilian Farahani, Markus Nykänen

Directed by Simon Stone

Music

Drama

20211h 51m10.0

Overview

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Finland is the setting but the protagonists come from the four corners of Europe: a Finnish groom and his Romanian bride, a French mother-in-law and a Czech maid. Around them memories unravel in a contemporary tragedy of guilt and lost innocence.