The New York Metropolitan Opera will this year stage its second ever opera written by a woman. Shawn E Milnes sees an artform on the brink of change from its sexist past.
Next season, the Metropolitan Opera will stage an opera written by a woman for only the second time in its history and the first time since 1903.
L’Amour de Loin, or “Love from Afar,” written by female Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, premiered in 2000 at the Salzburg Festival and had its U.S. premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2002.
The Metropolitan production will open on Dec. 1, 2016. The opera is based on a story by Jaufre Rudel, one of the greatest 12th-century troubadours, his love for a woman “from the East” of whom he has only heard, and his epic journey to find her... Keep reading on The Daily Beast
Next season, the Metropolitan Opera will stage an opera written by a woman for only the second time in its history and the first time since 1903.
L’Amour de Loin, or “Love from Afar,” written by female Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, premiered in 2000 at the Salzburg Festival and had its U.S. premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2002.
The Metropolitan production will open on Dec. 1, 2016. The opera is based on a story by Jaufre Rudel, one of the greatest 12th-century troubadours, his love for a woman “from the East” of whom he has only heard, and his epic journey to find her... Keep reading on The Daily Beast