Adriana Mater

Kaija Saariaho and Amin Maalouf's powerful contemporary opera receives its ENO premiere in a new staging by artistic director Annilese Miskimmon. Amid a brutal civil war, Adriana raises her son Yonas with love after a violent assault, but his later discovery of the truth about his father drives him towards revenge. Kristina Stanek leads the cast in Aleksi Barrière's newly commissioned English translation, with André de Ridder conducting a score that blends live instruments and electronics in a story of motherhood, mercy and breaking cycles of violence.