Kaija Saariaho: Innocence

About Kaija Saariaho: Innocence

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.

Simon Stone's Kaija Saariaho: Innocence is a 2021 music film. The film is filed under opera and contemporary opera.

Magdalena Kožená appears as Waitress, Sandrine Piau as Mother-in-Law, Tuomas Pursio as Father-in-Law, and Lilian Farahani as Bride. It runs 111 minutes and was released in July 2021.

The screenplay is by Sofi Oksanen. It streams on Carnegie Hall+ Amazon Channel and Carnegie Hall+ Apple TV channel in the United States.