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Article: L'Amour de Loin: Gerald Finley (Rudel) in the Santa Fe Opera production. (Opera in Review: Santa Fe).(Opera Review)
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- December 22, 2002
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THE season at Santa Fe Opera ended on a high note with the American premiere of L'Amour de loin by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Written for three characters--the troubadour Rudel (Canadian baritone Gerald Finley), his distant love Clemence (Dawn Upshaw) and a go-between, simply called The Pilgrim (Monica Groop)-- the story deals with such lofty and abstract notions as idealized love, obsession, alienation, loneliness, reality, illusion and finally, death and loss. Essentially static and lasting one hour 45 minutes with no intermission, the music, with its mesmerizing quality and wide spectrum of tone colors and sonorities, is distinctive without breaking new ground.
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Dictionary definition: Santa Fe Opera
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;
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...Santa Fe Opera. Opera co. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded 1957 by John Crosby. Orig. theatre destroyed by fire 1967, rebuilt 1968 (capacity 1,773). 2-month annual summer fest., theatre being partially in open-air. Adventurous ...
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