Robert Lepage Explains The 28,000 LEDs He’s Using In The Met’s ‘L’Amour De Loin’ (And He Fesses Up About ‘The Machine’)

The director says that Kaija Saariaho’s opera is very much about water, “but when you take it literally and say, ‘I’ll put water onstage,’ water … will do what it wants, and you don’t have any control over it.” (LEDs – we hope – will do what they’re told.) (includes video)