The Metropolitan Opera: LâAmour de Loin
Synopsis
Robert Lepageâs dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates the mystic feeling of LâAmour de Loin, Saariahoâs haunting opera of distant love. Eric Owens is JaufrĂ© 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 ClĂ©mence, Countess of Tripoli (Susanna Phillips). The magic of the charactersâ inner lives as they explore the meaning of love, longing, life, and death is heightened by Saariahoâs hypnotic and bewitching score, conducted by Susanna MĂ€lkki.
Where to watch
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