tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post1962730471645863954..comments2024-03-18T09:22:11.316-04:00Comments on OPERA OBSESSION: Le coeur de vivre, l'esprit dans les étoiles: Saariaho's ÉmilieLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02549302523503271428noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-25029487090055879072012-09-12T18:18:23.509-04:002012-09-12T18:18:23.509-04:00Neal Wilkinson must be very talented to conduct th...Neal Wilkinson must be very talented to conduct this opera because he was the set designer too. It must have been John Kennedy, no?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-75080729469092084162012-07-24T19:19:37.721-04:002012-07-24T19:19:37.721-04:00I am jealous. I am a huge Saariaho fan.I am jealous. I am a huge Saariaho fan.Dr.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-76957605023557771722012-07-24T12:23:11.277-04:002012-07-24T12:23:11.277-04:00We have a decent chance of seeing more. Alexander...We have a decent chance of seeing more. Alexander Neef is a big fan. His first paid opera job was working on the L'Amour de Loin premiere in Salzburg. L'Amour de Loin played to 90% sold houses here so something like Adriana Mater might not be seen as too high risk. One thing I noticed was that L'Amour de Loin brought people in from out of town. There was a lot of French being spoken in the bars at the interval.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-70134340735948816472012-07-24T09:00:19.185-04:002012-07-24T09:00:19.185-04:00It sounds as though you (and Toronto!) made good u...It sounds as though you (and Toronto!) made good use of Saariaho's residency! She's been at Carnegie Hall for the past season, and I must confess that I haven't heard as much of her work as I would have liked to. The close working relationship with Maalouf does indeed seem to be bearing great fruit; I've yet to hear Adriana Mater but I was impressed by L'amour de loin as well as Émilie.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549302523503271428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665236978084294968.post-69758012419509337492012-07-23T12:17:48.544-04:002012-07-23T12:17:48.544-04:00There's something very special about the Maalo...There's something very special about the Maalouf/Saariaho partnership. So many modern operas are marred by clunky libretti but Maalouf has a sort of restrained lyricism that is well suited to telling a story and which matches so well the similarly restrained lyricism of KS's music. I'm so glad they have another potential hit.<br /><br />I loved the time KS was in Toronto. I saw "L'Amour de Loin" twice and attended two lunchtime concerts of her music that KS MC'd. There were some stellar performances of some very difficult music from some of our young artists; notably Jacquie woodley singing "Lonh" and Rihab Chaieb and Ileana Montalbetti singing "From the Grammar of Dreams".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com