Mainly Opera and Ballet
A school shooting reverberates ten years later when one of the plotters is about to get married. His bride has no idea her husband-to-be is the brother of the teenager who shot ten students and one teacher. But one waitress, Tereza at the wedding reception knows very well. After working abroad she is drafted in …
Having seen Limen two years ago, my main memory was of blue number lights at the rear of the stage in a confusing on-again-off-again pattern, along with dancers barely visible in a half-light, but that is only in the second part. The first half is better, and I like Kaija Saariaho’s music, I love the use of bright …
The choreography [of Limen] fitted very well with the lovely music by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho
…based on a love poem by a famous troubadour from 12th century Aquitaine … a period when troubadours sang in the Provençal language of amor de lonh (distant love),
