Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death
The composer Kaija Saariaho, who died earlier this month at 70, spent much of her career expecting not to write an opera. She saw it as a dusty art form, she once said, and couldn’t picture translating her sound world of slow, subtle harmonic changes into melodies and arias. A pair of directors…
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