bokomslag The Exterminating Angel
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The Exterminating Angel

Tom Cairns Thomas Ades

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  • 64 sidor
  • 2017
Ades's third opera, The Exterminating Angel premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July 2016. Based on Luis Bunuel's surrealist classic El angel exterminador, the opera sees a collection of society's grandees inexplicably trapped in a room. The libretto, adapted from the original Bunuel-Alcoriza screenplay by the composer together with the director Tom Cairns brilliantly captures their descent into anarchy. Featuring a jaw-dropping 15 principals (who remain on stage for the majority of the piece), The Exterminating Angel is a true ensemble opera, and the skill with which Ades delineates the many intricacies and undercurrents present over its densely-packed span (just under two hours plus interval) is breathtaking. Like the shipwrecked characters of The Tempest, the cast of this new opera are held in a state of entrapment and dramatic stasis. Like the glittering high-society world of Powder Her Face, the dinner party guests are denizens of a nightmarish world of aristocratic pretension.
  • Författare: Tom Cairns, Thomas Ades
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780571539697
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 64
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-03-20
  • Förlag: Faber Music Ltd