The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

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The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin (2016)

Directed by Robert Lepage, Gary Halvorson

Music · 2h 10m

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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Cast

Susanna Phillips Clémence Tamara Mumford The Pilgrim Eric Owens Jaufré Rudel Deborah Voigt Self - Host MET Orchestra

Crew

Director
Robert Lepage, Gary Halvorson
Writer
Amin Maalouf
Original Music Composer
Kaija Saariaho

Details

Release date
2016-12-10
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Music
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
English, French
Production
The Metropolitan Opera