A large international cast of soloists rises magnificently to the challenge, suspending time for Innocence’s unbroken ...

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and Finnish soprano Anu Komsi discuss their work together See more episodes Programme website Copyright 2025 BBC. All rights reserved ...

Works by Jan Sibelius, Kaija Saariaho, Charles Ives and Adès himself visited a vast spectrum of choral and orchestral hues that can be heard by the ear. Some of them use those colors to make ...

The story of two Jewish cousins in 1939 New York City who create an anti-fascist comic book hero, the Escapist, comes as a ...

The San Francisco Symphony won a Grammy Award for its world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho’s “Adriana Mater.” The opera debuted at Paris’ Opéra Bastille in 2006, but the Symphony ...

Kaija Saariaho's Innocence was a complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles for Adelaide Festival.

To say the set design, and the small army of backstage crew who transform it – from swanky restaurants to blood-smeared ...

Brett Sheehy’s penultimate Adelaide Festival is an array of powerful performances, from its stunning opera centrepiece to a primeval flamenco.