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

The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

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2 hr 10 min

2016-12-10

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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.

Music

Trailers

Characters

Susanna Phillips

Susanna Phillips

Clémence

Tamara Mumford

Tamara Mumford

The Pilgrim

Eric Owens

Eric Owens

Jaufré Rudel

Deborah Voigt

Deborah Voigt

Self - Host

MET Orchestra

MET Orchestra

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