Love's Debris

Ecstasy awaits serious opera fans in this beautifully photographed, loosely structured documentary about opera singers. The material is rich, and the question around which it's structured -- how do singers evoke a world of intense and complex emotions through their voices? -- is one that could easily engage a wide range of viewers. Director Werner Schroeter's casual interviews with a series of European singers are often moving, especially when he speaks to three older divas who helped inspire his own love of opera -- Italian Anita Cerquetti, German Martha Modl and Belgian Rita Gorr -- about the ways singing shaped their lives, and how their lives seeped into their ...