Kaija Saariaho’s opera unfolds a luminous encounter between the human and the supernatural, inspired by Japanese nō plays Tsunemasa and Hagoromo and set to an Ezra Pound libretto. Peter Sellars’s staging is framed by Julie Mehretu’s pictorial designs, where sound and image conjure a ritualised atmosphere. The production highlights soloists Philippe Jaroussky and Davóne Tines within a delicate, otherworldly score that blends chant, orchestral colour and spectral textures. A poetic, meditative evening of music and theatre.
In English.
