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Synopsis
A poignant setting of the tragic love story between renowned 12th-century scholar Peter
Abelard and his young student Heloïse. These lovers faced timeless issues: passionate love,
jealousy, religious infighting, the institution of marriage, and the role of women in society.
Heloise and Abelard
24.04.2002 The Juilliard Theater at the Juilliard School / Nan Melville
Heloïse and Abelard is an astutely crafted, musically absorbing, and theatrically affecting work,
one that deserves a future and many more productions. (Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine)
Paulus‘ declamatory vocal style and harmonically consistent tonal vocabulary evoke the period
subtly and skillfully...the couple Heloïse and Abelard rank high among the most compelling pairs of
lovers in contemporary American opera. (Joshua Rosenblum, Opera America)
The new work is real opera: memorable, even heart-rending ensembles, characters nicely drawn,
scenes shaped with a dramatist‘s hand and not a moment too long, vocal lines the work of a composer
who knows the voice and what it can do. I came home from New York with this work out
front in my memory. (Alan Rich, L.A.Weekly)
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