San Francisco Becomes an Opera Capital Audiences could take in works by Strauss and Kaija Saariaho, as well as a new one by Gabriela Lena Frank about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works This poetic composer, who died on Friday, wrote indelible, simmering operas, concertos, orchestral explosions, choral meditations and solos.
Kaija Saariaho, Pathbreaking Finnish Composer, Is Dead at 70 She brought new textures to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female composer to have two operas staged by the Met.