Letter to Peter

Movie · 1h 22m

Starring Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dawn Upshaw, José van Dam, Urban Malmberg

Jean-Pierre Gorin filmed the rehearsals and premiere of Saint Francis, Olivier Messiaen's monumental opera directed for the Salzburg Music Festival by the American wunderkind Peter Sellars. The result was a first-person documentary in the form of a letter.