The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin (2016)
The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates the mystic feeling of L’Amour de Loin, Saariaho’s haunting opera of distant love. Eric Owens is Jaufré Rudel, a troubadour in 12th century France who has become tired of his hedonistic life and longs for an idealized love. Enter the Pilgrim (Tamara Mumford) who tells him his perfect love does, in fact, exist, far across the sea. She is Clémence, Countess of Tripoli (Susanna Phillips). The magic of the characters’ inner lives as they explore the meaning of love, longing, life, and death is heightened by Saariaho’s hypnotic and bewitching score, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.
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Susanna Phillips
as Clémence
as Clémence
Tamara Mumford
as The Pilgrim
as The Pilgrim
Eric Owens
as Jaufré Rudel
as Jaufré Rudel
Deborah Voigt
as Self - Host
as Self - Host
MET Orchestra
as
as
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Susanna Mälkki
Conductor
Conductor
Robert Lepage
Director
Director
Kaija Saariaho
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Amin Maalouf
Writer
Writer
Gary Halvorson
Director
Director
