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The Exterminating Angel
Opéra Bastille - from 29 February to 23 March 2024
On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m
The Exterminating Angel
Thomas Adès
On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m
Opéra Bastille - from 29 February to 23 March 2024
2h00 no interval
Language : English
Surtitle : French / English
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Pre-opening for the young : 26 Feb. 2024
Opening night : 29 Feb. 2024
About
In few words:
After last season’s The Dante Project, the Paris Opera continues to explore the music of contemporary composer Thomas Adès with the French premiere of The Exterminating Angel. Inspired by Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist film, which offered a scathing critique of the bourgeoisie, the work begins with a dinner among upper-class friends in a plush mansion after an opera performance. But, gradually, a mysterious force prevents the fifteen guests from leaving the reception. In this confinement for no apparent reason, drawn out over several days, the veneer of propriety cracks, revealing the worst of human nature. Thomas Adès has written a rich and tense score, amplifying the libretto’s strange atmosphere with unusual instruments such as the ondes Martenot. The Paris Opera has entrusted the staging of this huis-clos to Calixto Bieito. The director has long been fascinated by Buñuel’s universe.
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The Exterminating Angel
Opera in three acts (2016)
Based on the eponymous film by Luis Buñuel
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Lucia de Nobile
Jacquelyn Stucker -
Leticia Meynar
Caroline Wettergreen -
Leonora Palma
Hilary Summers -
Silvia de Avíla
Claudia Boyle -
Blanca Delgado
Christine Rice -
Beatriz
Amina Edris -
Edmundo de Nobile
Nicky Spence -
Comte Raúl Yebenes
Frédéric Antoun -
Colonel Álvaro Gómez
Jarrett Ott -
Francisco de Avíla
Anthony Roth Costanzo -
Eduardo
Filipe Manu -
Señor Russel
Philippe Sly -
Alberto Roc
Paul Gay -
Doctor Carlos Conde
Clive Bayley -
Julio – Butler
Thomas Faulkner -
Meni – Maid
Ilanah Lobel-Torres
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