A Newly Relevant ‘L’Amour de Loin’ at the Met

Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times:

“The soprano Susanna Phillips looks and sounds radiant as Clémence. At first, hearing about Jaufré’s adoration, Clémence is affronted and breaks into skittish lines that Ms. Phillips sings with miffed agitation. But soon she is entranced by the idea of the prince’s heightened form of love. At this point the opera exposes the folly, even the danger, of making idealized assumptions about the “other.”