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Kaija Saariaho, acclaimed Finnish composer, dies at 70

by Ronald Blum / Associated Press

Her "L'Amour de Loin (Love from Afar)" 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 composer at the Metropolitan Opera since Ethel M. Smyth's "Der Wald" in 1903.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 1:59pm on June 3, 2023