Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, died Friday. She was 70. Saariaho died at her apartment in Paris, her family said in ...

Vilma Jää, a Finnish folk and pop singer, is bringing her eerie and affecting traditional music to the Metropolitan Opera. By Joshua Barone and George Etheredge The set of Kaija Saariaho’s opera ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, died Friday ...

KAIJA SAARIAHO’S artistic genesis was inauspicious. Born to a metal worker and home-maker, she received no musical encouragement from her parents. As a child, she composed secretly in her bedroom; ...

Sung in nine languages, with music by one of the world’s most acclaimed composers, Innocence comes to the UK this month. The team behind it reveal how it drew on everything from The Last Supper to ...

ARIANA MATER, the opera by Kaija Saariaho who died from a brain tumor last summer at 70, won this year's Grammy for Best Opera Recording, with a French language libretto by Amin Maalouf. It was issued ...

The last time New York's Metropolitan Opera presented a work written by a woman was 113 years ago. It's a drought that lasted longer than the years between the Cubs' World Series victories. That ...

It’s a long time since a London opera production got the frenzied advance attention Innocence has received, and that attention is for two quite separate reasons. First, because its 70-year-old Finnish ...