Back in October, I reviewed the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Thomas Adès new opera, The Exterminating Angel, noting at the time that I’d also be reviewing the November 18 performance as broadcast in movie theaters—thanks to the continuing miracles of the digital age, Met performances are broadcast in high def to theaters in 70 countries…
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Tempest in a Teaspoon—The Exterminating Angel. You’ve seen the movie, now hear the opera!
Fewer sheep, more tunes! That’s the short take on composer Thomas Adès fascinating new opera, The Exterminating Angel, enjoying its Metropolitan Opera premiere on October 26. The Exterminating Angel, with a libretto by Tom Cairns, is based on Luis Buñuel’s 1962 classic exercise in Iberian surrealism, directed by Buñuel using a screenplay he wrote in…