Overview
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.
Cast
- Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor
- Dawn Upshaw as Self - Soprano
- José van Dam as Self - Bass-Baritone
- Urban Malmberg as Self - Baritone
- John Aler as Self - Tenor
- Tom Krause as Self - Baritone
- Ronald Hamilton as Self - Tenor
- Peter Sellars as Self - Director