Modernism and Opera 2: L'amour de loin
Joy H. Calico, "Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin. Modernist Opera in the Twenty-First Century,Modernism and Opera Matthew Wilson Smith, Richard Begam, ed., NY: John Hopkins Press, 2016, 341-360.
Pirkko Moisala, Dramas, Kaija Saariaho, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 93-102.
David Metzer, "Lament,", Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 163-67.
Further Reading
Julian Anderson"Seductive Solitary. Julian Anderson Introduces the Work of Kaija Saariaho,", The Musical Times 133/1798 (1992), 616-19.
Written on Skin
Emma Dillon Jr., "Vocal Philologies: Written on Skin and the Troubadours," The Opera Quarterly 33/3-4 (2018), 207-48.
Cecilia Livingston, "Salt strange and sweet”’: Operatic Ironies in Written on Skin," DRAFT Opera in Flux Michigan: Michigan University Press, forthcoming.
L'amour de loin, Kaija Saariaho
Scenes from the Salonen conducted L'amour
Pèlerin (Monica Groop) and Clémence, (Dawn Upshaw)
Pèlerin (Monica Groop) and Jaufré Rudel (Gerald Finley).
Trailer, L’Amour de Loin, Landestheater Linz
More Saariaho
La Passion du Simone, Royal Swedish Opera (Opera on the life of Simone Weil)
Excerpt from Émilie, Finnish National Opera
Trailer Only the Sound Remains, Peter Sellars, Dutch National Opera
Orion for orchestra, Andrés Orozxo-Estrada, Oper Frankfurt
Laterna Magica, BBC Proms
Written on Skin, George Benjamin (medici.tv)
Cecilia Livingston, Show and Tell: Operatic Ironies in Written on Skin
