Innocence at ROH: School shooting opera is brutal but brilliant

Opera, that most dramatic of art forms, has routinely attracted the most tragic of narratives. Torture, tyranny, poverty: there is an opera for every personal and political hardship, and now, with Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence, there’s an opera for the most modern of tragedies, a school shooting. Innocence begins at the wedding of Stela and Tuomas, [...]