📜 Overview:
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, a group of elegant socialites gather for a lavish dinner party, but when it is time to leave for the night, no one is able to escape. Soon, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and savage. The large ensemble cast tackles both the vocal and dramatic demands of Adès's opera with one riveting performance after another. Tom Cairns, who also penned the work's libretto, directs an engrossing and inventive production, using a towering wooden archway to trap the characters onstage. And Adès himself takes the podium to conduct the frenzied score, which features a host of unconventional instruments, including the eerie electronic ondes Martenot.
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
2017-11-18
⌚ Running Time:
142 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.7
Beloved Cast
Edmundo de Nobile
Joseph Kaiser
Lucía de Nobile
Amanda Echalaz
Leticia Maynar
Audrey Luna
Leonora Palma
Alice Coote
Silvia de Ávila
Sally Matthews
Francisco de Ávila
Iestyn Davies
Blanca Delgado
Christine Rice
Alberto Roc
Rodney Gilfry
Beatriz
Sophie Bevan
Raúl Yebenes
Frédéric Antoun
Eduardo
David Portillo
Colonel Álvaro Gómez
David Adam Moore
Señor Russell
Kevin Burdette
Doctor Carlos Conde
John Tomlinson
Julio
Christian van Horn
Lucas
John Irvin
Enrique
Ian Koziara
Pablo
Paul Corona
Meni
Mary Dunleavy
Camila
Catherine Cook
Servant
Andrea Coleman
Servant
Marc Persing
Padre Sansón
Jeff Mattsey
Yoli
Lucas Mann
Self - Host
Susan Graham
MET Orchestra
