The Exterminating Angel - Opera - Season 23/24 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m

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    The Exterminating Angel

    Thomas Adès

    Opéra Bastille - from 29 February to 23 March 2024

    On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m

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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

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Opera

The Exterminating Angel

Thomas Adès

On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m

Book

Opéra Bastille - from 29 February to 23 March 2024

2h00 no interval

Language : English

Surtitle : French / English

  • 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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