In addition, the company will present new stagings of Paul Hindemith's rarely seen Cardillac, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Gluck's Iphig_nie en Tauride, Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, and Shostakovich's The Nose, the last performed by the Mariinsky Opera.
Adriana Mater takes place during the Balkan wars, and is the story of a woman who is raped and becomes pregnant. The libretto is by Amin Maalouf, who collaborated with Saariaho on her acclaimed L'amour de loin. Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the world-premiere production; Peter Sellars is the director.