Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Exterminating Angel ...
The work was acclaimed at its world premiere at London's Royal Opera House in 2004 and admired in its American premiere at New Mexico's Santa Fe Opera in 2006. The Met production, which had its debut ...
Calixto Bieito added an element to “The Exterminating Angel” that Luis Buñuel and Thomas Adès left out: cannibalism. Adès’ opera, based on Buñuel’s 1962 film “El ángel exterminador,” details ...
2006-08-05 04:00:00 PDT Santa Fe-- For any composer out to make an opera of "The Tempest," Shakespeare helpfully provides a spec sheet. Prospero's enchanted island, as Caliban observes in the play, ...
Something special is happening at the Music Center this weekend, as Adès & McGregor: A Dance Collaboration engineers an interdisciplinary mini-festival of works by Thomas Adès. The British composer ...
Cynics scoffed when a crusty impresario named John Crosby founded what he hoped would become a thriving summer opera festival in the unlikeliest of settings — an open-sided theater perched atop a ...
Imagine a dinner party that never ends. The guests can't leave. That's the premise for Luis Buñuel's classic 1962 surrealist film The Exterminating Angel. It might seem an unlikely subject for an ...
Calixto Bieito added an element to “The Exterminating Angel” that Luis Buñuel and Thomas Adès left out: cannibalism. Adès’ opera, based on Buñuel’s 1962 film “El ángel exterminador,” details ...