Artwork for The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin
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The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

2016 2 hours 10 minutes
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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.

Released

10th December 2016

9 years ago

Runtime

2 hours 10 minutes

Finishes at 12:27pm

Artwork for The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

Directed by

Robert Lepage, Gary Halvorson

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Written by

Amin Maalouf

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