What was clearest, most careful and most lovely in The Emigrants is present here again in The New Land, along with what was most troubling and most mysteriously unaffecting.
The love music was pallid and unaffecting compared with L'Amore, where Fiora forgets even the stalking blind king who she knows is coming to kill her.
Bruce Prochnik's Oliver is singularly unaffecting, but Clive Revill's Fagin glints with eccentricity.