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The Exterminating Angel
£13.99
An Opera in Three Acts
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Description
Adès’s third opera,The Exterminating Angel premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July 2016. Based on Luis Buñuel’s surrealist classic El ángel exterminador, the opera sees a collection of society’s grandees inexplicably trapped in a room. The libretto,adapted from the original Buñuel-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 Adès delineates the many intricacies and undercurrents present over its densely-packed span (just under twohours 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.
Additional information
| Weight | 130 g |
|---|---|
| Composer | Thomas Adès_Tom Cairns |
| Publisher | Faber Music |
| Instrumentation | opera |
| Product Type | Libretto |
| Genre | Opera or Operetta |
| Pages | 64 |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| ISBN | 9780571539697 |
| Edition Number | 571539696 |
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