ARIANA MATER, the opera by Kaija Saariaho, who died last summer at 70, won this year's Grammy for Best Opera Recording, for ...

Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen received a 2025 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, with the San Francisco Symphony ...

The San Francisco Symphony won the Grammy Award for best opera recording for its world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho’s ...

Here is a look at the classical music winners. The Best Opera Recording went to “Saariaho: Adriana Mater.” The award was shared by Kaija Saariaho, Amin Maalouf, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Fleur Barron, ...

Earlier this year Donald Macleod and Kaija Saariaho met up in Paris, the city where she's made her home since 1982, to talk about five contrasting aspects of her music.

THERE are many adjectives you could apply to the late, great guru of the avant garde Pierre Boulez, not all of them ...

Semafor is one of the last pieces Kaija Saariaho completed before her death last year. Her choice of title is a reference to the bold, playful sculptures of Finnish artist Ernst Mether-Borgström.

Smyth, whose Der Wald premiered in 1903, and Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin in 2016. "If we are claiming that opera needs ...

An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush. Hush…when the great Finnish composer ...

Feelings are running high, whether in Kaija Saariaho’s opening Lumière et pesanteur, Beethoven’s darkest concerto (with the charismatic Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko at the keyboard) or ...