Kaija Saariaho’s work, making its New York debut, is the second opera composed by a woman to be presented by the company. (The first was in 1903.) By Anthony Tommasini ...

Teeman Kaija Saariaho -kokonaisuudessa nähdään lisäksi Marikki Hakolan elokuva Mirages sekä Saariahon viimeiseksi jääneen teoksen Hush kantaesitys, joka on tallennettu Radion sinfoniaorkesterin ...

Composer Kaija Saariaho with conductor Gustavo Dudamel, left, and baritone Gerald Finley after the world premiere of Saariaho’s “True Fire” at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2015.

Polar Music Prize laureate composer Kaija Saariaho, of Finland, receives the Polar Music Prize 2013 from King Carl Gustaf, left, at the prize ceremony in Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm.

In 2015, I had the privilege of going for a walk with Saariaho in a snowy landscape outside Hämeenlinna, Finland (the birthplace of Sibelius). As we walked, I got to hear the sounds of cracking ...

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The opera will be staged at the Met in the 2025-2026 season. Kaija Saariaho was born Oct. 14, 1952, in Helsinki. As a child, she had a vivid imagination, and would describe hearing melodies in her ...

Born in Helsinki on Oct. 14, 1952, Saariaho studied at the Sibelius Academy and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She helped found a Finnish group “Korvat auki (Ears Open) in the 1970s.

Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, has died. She was 70. Saariaho's family says in a statement ...

FILE - Composer Kaija Saariaho, of Finland, arrives for the Polar Music Prize ceremony, where she was named Polar Music Prize laureate Composer for 2013, at the Stockholm concert hall in Stockholm ...

Saariaho died at her apartment in Paris, her family said in a statement posted on her Facebook page. She had been diagnosed in February 2021 with glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable brain tumor.