About: Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest,
the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating
Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name.
Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg
Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The
Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party
from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs
the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera.
Music by Thomas Adès, libretto
by Tom Cairns in collaboration with the composer, based on the screenplay by
Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza.
Production a gift of Robert L.
Turner. Additional funding from The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. and Oscar Tang
Endowment Fund, and American Express