L’Amour de loin

About the show

The troubadour Jaufré longs for a distant, ideal love, and the Pilgrim tells him that Clémence, Countess of Tripoli, exists and has heard his songs. Clémence begins to imagine this devoted stranger, but hesitates to meet him. Jaufré travels to Tripoli and arrives gravely ill; he and Clémence declare their love before he dies. She enters a convent, praying ambiguously to God or to her lost lover.