L’Amour de Loin - THE MET: Live in HD

The new season of global movie-theater transmissions continues with the Met premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin. One of the most highly praised operas of recent years, which had its premiere at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera was described by the New York Times as “transfixing…a lushly beautiful score.”

Since its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival, L’Amour de Loin has earned a place among the most acclaimed stage works of the 21st century. The opera won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Musical Composition in 2003 and has been performed in Paris, London, Santa Fe, Helsinki, Aspen, Darmstadt, and elsewhere. Yet it took years before Kaija Saariaho became convinced that opera could be a viable medium for what she wanted to express as a composer. She finally found the inspiration she was searching for in the short, quasi-legendary life story of an early medieval troubadour, Jaufré Rudel, and his improbable love for a far-away woman: “I felt that this was a story for me: simple, but full of meaning, and with a lot of space for music.”

A yearning medieval romance, directed by the renowned Robert Lepage, featuring glimmering ribbons of LED lights that extend across the length of the stage and over the orchestra pit. Eric Owens is the knight on a quest of love and Susanna Phillips is his lover on the other side of the sea. Conductor Susanna Mälkki makes her Met debut.

With Greek and English subtitles

Duration: 153'

Media Sponsor: Politis Newspaper
With the support of ANT1

Tickets: €18/ 13

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