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Soprano

Susanna Phillips

Clémence

Mezzo-soprano

Tamara Mumford

The Pilgrim

Baritone

Eric Owens

Jaufré Rudel

Michael Todd Simpson

Conductor

Susanna Mälkki

Stage director

Robert Lepage

Set designer

Michael Curry

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Lionel Arnould

Lighting designer

Kevin Adams

Sound designer

Mark Grey

The Metropolitan Opera

L'Amour de loin -  (Love from afar)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

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.

L'Amour de loin (Saariaho) Met 2016 Owen Phillips Mumford

L'Amour de loin Saariaho

Love from afar

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Watch a trailer for Robert Lepage’s Met-premiere production of Kaija Saariaho’s "L’Amour de Loin," conducted by Susanna Mälkki and starring Susanna Phillips,...

Love from afar by Saariaho, From (2016/2016), Directed by Robert Lepage,, Conductor Susanna Mälkki, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, United States

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