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One saint in three acts: Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise finally receives its American premiere this month, in a new production at San Francisco Opera. William R. Braun tells us what to listen for this extraordinary musical spectacle.(Saint Franfois d'Assise)
"The drama of my life consists of four things," Olivier Messiaen told his protege Almut Rossler. "Firstly, I teach about birdsongs to urban dwellers who've never heard a bird in their lives. The second drama consists of my telling people that I see colors whenever I hear music, and they see nothing, nothing at all. The third drama is that I've attained a rhythmic language of ever greater freedom, which comes ever closer to Nature, for example to the undulating motion of the sea, to the wind, to the movements of the clouds. Whenever I talk about rhythm, most people understand nothing, because to them rhythm means a military march or jazz. The fourth drama, the worst of ...
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