AfriClassical: Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin Opens Dec 1. Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens star...in a work the New York Times calls “transfixing… lushly beautiful.”

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin Opens Dec 1. Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens star...in a work the New York Times calls “transfixing… lushly beautiful.”

Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens

(Metropolitan Opera)

Metropolitan Opera

Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin Opens Dec 1

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s haunting odyssey of love premieres in a dazzling new production by Robert Lepage. Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens star as the impassioned lovers on a spiritual quest in a work the New York Times calls “transfixing… lushly beautiful.” Conductor Susanna Mälkki makes her Met debut.