Kaija Saariaho: Innocence
- Media type
- Film
Kaija Saariaho: Innocence · Kaija Saariaho: Innocence · MOVIE
Music, Drama 2021
About this title
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.