Innocence (opera)
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Innocence is an opera in five acts by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. The libretto was written in Finnish by Sofi Oksanen and translated/adapted by Aleksi Barrière.
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Opera by Kaija Saariaho | |
Librettist | Sofi Oksanen, translated and adapted by Aleksi Barrière |
Language | English, Finnish, Czech, French, Romanian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Greek |
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The opera was co-commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Dutch National Opera, the Finnish National Opera, and the San Francisco Opera.[1][2] It received its world premiere on 3 July 2021 at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, conducted by Susanna Mälkki and directed by Simon Stone.[3]
The opera tells the intertwined stories of a wedding in 2000s Helsinki and a school shooting ten years prior,[1][4] and has been described as a thriller.[5][6]