Name: Innocence
Start: 2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Het Muziektheater

Artist

Admin

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Dramaturg

Simon Stone

Set designer

Chloe Lamford

Kostuum ontwerper

Mel Page

Licht ontwerper

James Farncombe

Choreograaf

Arco Renz

Zanger

Soprano

Lenneke Ruiten

Mother-in-Law (Patricia)

Baritone

Thomas Oliemans

Father-in-Law (Henrik)

Lilian Farahani

Bride (Stela)

Tenor

Markus Nykänen

Groom (Tuomas)

Frederik Bergman

Priest

Lucy Shelton

Teacher (Cecilia)

Vilma Jää

Student 1 (Markéta)

My Johansson

Student 2

Julie Hega

Student 3 (Iris)

Koor meester

Edward Ananian-Cooper

Rowan Kievits

Student 4 (Anton)

Dirigent

Elena Schwarz

Regisseur

Mezzo-soprano

Jenny Carlstedt

Waitress (Tereza)

Finnish National Opera

De Nationale Opera

Royal Opera House

Others

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

San Francisco Opera

The Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra

Residence Orchestra The Hague

Engels

Fins

Tsjechisch

Frans

Roemeens

Zweeds

Duits

Spaans

Grieks

Innocence

Amsterdam

Nederland

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Innocence Saariaho

Public

Private

Approved

Het Muziektheater

A mass shooting takes place at an international school. Ten years later, the shooter’s younger brother gets married and hopes to put this history behind him for good. However, the wedding turns into a confrontation with the past. Traumas that had been suppressed by all the individuals involved resurface, and the distinction between perpetrator and victim becomes increasingly blurred.

The world premiere of Innocence was in 2021 at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where the opera was highly praised by critics. With the force of a psychological thriller, it shows the far-reaching effects of violence, while Kaija Saariaho’s music reverberates more than ever before with the sounds of raw realism.


THE MAKERS
The Australian theatre, film and opera director Simon Stone, who caused a stir in the Netherlands with his impressive theatrical productions at the Holland Festival and ITA (Flight 49, Medea and Ibsen House), will be making his debut at Dutch National Opera with his staging of Saariaho’s latest work. After Émilie (2010) and Only the Sound Remains (2016), Innocence is Saariaho’s third work to be performed by Dutch National Opera.

The Swiss-Australian conductor Elena Schwarz, an ardent advocate of new music, makes her DNO-debut with Innocence. Three audience favourites – Dutch singers Lilian Farahani, Lenneke Ruiten and Thomas Oliemans – will also be starring in this opera.

English

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