Acclaimed composer Kaija Saariaho has died at the age of 70.
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Her “L’Amour de Loin ” premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2000 and made its U.S. debut at the Santa Fe Opera two years later. In 2016, it became the first staged work by a female“She was one of the most original voices and enjoyed enormous success,” Met general manager Peter Gelb said. “It had impact on one’s intellect as well as one’s emotions. It was music that really moves people’s hearts. She was truly one of the great, great artists.
“I am interested in spatialization, but under the condition that it’s not applied gratuitously,” she said in a 2014 conversation posted on her. “It has to be necessary — in the same way that material and form must be linked together organically. “This is undoubtedly the work of a mature master, in such full command of her resources that she can focus simply on telling a story and illuminating characters,” Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times.
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