The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel (2017)

Özet

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, a group of elegant socialites gather for a lavish dinner party, but when it is time to leave for the night, no one is able to escape. Soon, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and savage. The large ensemble cast tackles both the vocal and dramatic demands of Adès's opera with one riveting performance after another. Tom Cairns, who also penned the work's libretto, directs an engrossing and inventive production, using a towering wooden archway to trap the characters onstage. And Adès himself takes the podium to conduct the frenzied score, which features a host of unconventional instruments, including the eerie electronic ondes Martenot.

Oyuncular

• Joseph Kaiser

  Edmundo de Nobile

• Amanda Echalaz

  Lucía de Nobile

• Audrey Luna

  Leticia Maynar

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  Alice Coote

  Leonora Palma

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  Sally Matthews

  Silvia de Ávila

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  Iestyn Davies

  Francisco de Ávila

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  Christine Rice

  Blanca Delgado

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  Rodney Gilfry

  Alberto Roc

• Sophie Bevan

  Beatriz

• Frédéric Antoun

  Raúl Yebenes

• David Portillo

  Eduardo

• David Adam Moore

  Colonel Álvaro Gómez

Ekip

Yönetmen

Tom Cairns, Gary Halvorson

Senaryo

Tom Cairns

Hikâye / Eser

Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza

Yapımcı

Louisa Briccetti

Yönetici yapımcı

Peter Gelb

Müzik

Thomas Adès