1984 love duet

1984
Simon Keenlyside (Winston) and Nancy Gustafson (Julia) singing in the Lorin Maazel's 1984 (based on the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four of George Orwell).

ROH
cond. : Lorin Maazel
dir. : Robert Lepage

Let Darkness do what power might.
This is a moment stolen from the night.
May nothing now take back this hour stolen from them, out of time, out of sight.
May nothing now put out his love, this light, to make a flickering moment shine so bright.

Julia, my love.
Winston, my hope.

This is my heart, my life in your hands to set right.
May nothing now ever put out our love, our light.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• keenlyside
• gustafson
• opera
• 1984
• maazel

[maryotty]

thank you for this beautiful duet.. was it in London or in Milan 2008?

[elnim]

it was in London

[vladix31]

Simon Keenlyside is simply wonderful!

[ilnvita]

Wow! thax for video! love Keenlyside..

[vinomazzei]

Hmmm. Nice performance. Bad music. I'd say Aaron Copland, but less avant garde. (which is to say, not at all)

[peque1204]

this duet is wonderful!. thanks for upload!

[matt23071993]

@tigerpirate71 There's a DVD of the fourth night at Covent Garden (I was one of the kids in it!!) But there's no studio audio recording.

You can get the dvd on amazon i reckon

[Doctor699]

why is Julia a hidious old bag?

[pequenocronopio]

Im in shok!!

[evieiable]

When he was undoing her clothes, I was like 'GO ON, MY SON!' :L.

[eurydike]

@ilnvita me too.

[kellymich]

Much of the music in this opera is a little uneven in my opinion though some of it is very good.

This song between Julia and Winston is fantastic. Really good. Mazel excelled here.

[tigerpirate71]

does anyone know if there is a recording of this production?