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Semperoper Dresden

Dirigent

Maxime Pascal

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Regisseur

Regisseur (+2)

Lorenzo Fioroni

Set designer

Componist (+4)

Paul Zoll

Kostuum ontwerper

Kostuum ontwerper (+1)

Annette Braun

Licht ontwerper

Licht ontwerper (+3)

Fabio Antoci

Koor meester

Jonathan Becker

Dramaturg

Dramaturg (+1)

Dorothee Harpain

Mezzosopraan (+3)

Paula Murrihy

Waitress (Tereza)

Sopraan (+3)

Rosalia Cid

Bride (Stela)

Sopraan (+2)

Anu Komsi

Mother-in-Law (Patricia)

Tenor (+3)

Mario Lerchenberger

Groom (Tuomas)

Bariton (+4)

Markus Butter

Father-in-Law (Henrik)

Mezzosopraan (+4)

Fredrika Brillembourg

Teacher (Cecilia)

Tenor (+1)

Simon Jensen

Student 4 (Anton)

Sopraan

Olga Heikkilä

Student 6 (Alexia)

Semperoper

Geluidsontwerper

Romualdas Urba

Zanger

Venla Blom

Student 1 (Markéta)

Jessica Elevant

Student 2

Nusch Batut

Student 3 (Iris)

Carlo Nevio Wilfart

Student 5 (Jerónimo)

Regiehospitanz

Regisseur (+1)

Leonie Dehne

Chorus

Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden

Bas (+4)

Timo Riihonen

Priest

Bas-bariton (+2)

Jukka Rasilainen

Can the past be denied and memories erased? After a mass shooting at an international school, pupils, parents and teachers are left horrified and traumatised. The teenage perpetrator is committed to a psychiatric ward. Ten years later, Stela is celebrating her wedding to Tuomas, who she met in her home country of Romania, together with his parents and a priest. She is so happy that she doesn’t ask why there are so few guests. But the waitress hints that there is something Stela doesn’t know – that her groom has another brother.

„Innocence“ is the fifth and final opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952 –2023). Following its acclaimed premiere at the d’Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2021, it went on to enjoy great success in London, Helsinki and Amsterdam. This work deals with acutely relevant questions: What happens to a society after such a gruesome and disturbing act of violence? How can trauma be overcome? Together with librettist Sofi Oksanen and dramaturge Aleksi Barrière, Kaija Saariaho created a gripping yet poignant psychological thriller that relentlessly unpicks the characters’ entangled culpability, layer by layer, while leaving unanswered the question of each person’s guilt or innocence.

Innocence, Saariaho

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Waitress (Tereza)

Bride (Stela)

Mother-in-Law (Patricia)

Groom (Tuomas)

Father-in-Law (Henrik)

Teacher (Cecilia)

Student 4 (Anton)

Student 6 (Alexia)

Student 1 (Markéta)

Student 2

Student 3 (Iris)

Student 5 (Jerónimo)

Priest

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