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Kaija Saariaho - L’ amour de loin (opera in 5 acts) | Harmonia Mundi HMC80193738

Kaija Saariaho - L’ amour de loin (opera in 5 acts)

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC80193738

Barcode: 0794881924264

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 27th July 2009

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Contents

Artists

Daniel Belcher (tenor)
Ekaterina Lekhina (soprano)
Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzosoprano)
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Conductor

Kent Nagano

Works

Saariaho, Kaija

L'Amour de loin

Artists

Daniel Belcher (tenor)
Ekaterina Lekhina (soprano)
Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzosoprano)
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Conductor

Kent Nagano

About

To coincide with a new production of Kaija Saariaho's opera, L'amour de loin, at English National Opera, directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca and directed by Ed Gardner, harmonia mundi are proud to release Kent Nagano's new recording. Theatrical Magic director Daniele Finzi Pasca is part of the extraordinary new circus revolution which has transformed the art form in recent years. He created Corteo for Cirque du Soleil. For Cirque Éloize his Rain was a sell-out success on Broadway. He also created the Closing Ceremony for the Turin Winter Olympics, 2006.

Composed to a libretto by Amin Maalouf and premièred at Salzburg in 2000 in a production by Peter Sellars, L'Amour de loin was described by the New York Times as the Best New Work of the Year in 2000. Kaija Saariaho's first opera follows a 12th-century troubadour's search for love across a constantly changing theatrical landscape. This reinterpretation of the medieval narrative of the life of Jaufré Rudel tackles a number of highly topical themes: love from afar, the virtuality of ideal love and relations between East and West.


"Saariaho's haunting and beautifully coloured score… is deeply personal and utterly accomplished." The New York Times

Coproduction between Théâtre du Châtelet, Rundfunk-Orchester &-Chöre GmbH Berlin with the support of the Fondation Pierre Bergé / Yves Saint Laurent.

Recorded 6-9 march 2006, Teldex Studio Berlin, 9-21/10 2008, Bavaria Musik-Studios Munich.

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