Saariaho - L'Amour de Loin / Dawn Upshaw, Gerald Finley, Monica Groop, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
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Actor: Dawn Upshaw, Gerald Finley, Monica Groop, Peter SellarsConductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Philips
Movie Reviews of Saariaho - L'Amour de Loin / Dawn Upshaw, Gerald Finley, Monica Groop, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
Movie Review: Suprisingly melodic
Summary: 4 Stars
Fear not,the vocal writing is no more difficult to listen to and just as lovely as Richard Strauss' Arabella. Believe me. It has a slight undertone of the medieval. For such a minimal plot things really heat up once the Pilgrim has returned to tell of the Countess response and our hero is distressed by the apparent failure of the Pilgrim's mission. The orchestral writing is subtle and mystical in support of the singers and when called for gets quite dramatic with the expected contemporary masses of sound. I would expect Wagner's music was like this to the ears of the public when his operas premiered. Plenty of people felt it wasn't music at all so give this a chance. There is no shreiking here, no ridiculously difficult tessitura, the vocal writing is all very comfortable. The libretto is suffused with a poetry of it's own in both words and action. All three singers are in terrific voice and sing gorgeously.
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