Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel
Calixto Bieito (stage director), Thomas Adès (conductor) — With Jacquelyn Stucker (Lucia), Nicky Spence (Edmundo), Gloria Tronel (Leticia), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Francisco) …
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Cast
Thomas Adès — Libretto
Tom Cairns — Libretto
Calixto Bieito — Stage director
Anna-Sofia Kirsch — Set designer
Ingo Krügler — Costume designer
Reinhard Traub — Lighting designer
Bettina Auer — Dramaturgy
Jacquelyn Stucker — Lucia de Nobile
Gloria Tronel — Leticia Meynar
Hilary Summers — Leonora Palma
Claudia Boyle — Silvia de Avila
Christine Rice — Blanca Delgado
Amina Edris — Beatriz
Nicky Spence — Edmundo de Nobile
Frédéric Antoun — Count Raúl Yebenes
Jarrett Ott — Colonel Álvaro Gómez
Program notes
Certain scenes contain content of a violent or sexual nature that some viewers may find objectionable.
"If you see one opera this year," wrote Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times in 2017, "make it The Exterminating Angel." Following that year's production at New York's Metropolitan Opera, which made headlines for the record-breaking high A sung by Audrey Luna in the role of Leticia, Thomas Adès's extraordinary opera has arrived across the Atlantic for its French premiere at the Paris Opera, conducted by Adès himself and staged by the provocative Calixto Bieito. A brand-new cast of vocal superstars is ready to inhabit the heightened mix of drama, horror, and comedy that made Luis Buñuel's 1962 masterpiece one of the most memorable of all surrealist films…
The aristocratic Lucia and Edmundo de Nobile (Jacquelyn Stucker and Nicky Spence) are hosting a post-opera dinner party where singer Leticia Meynar (Gloria Tronel) will be the guest of honor. But after the servants run off, the wealthy guests find themselves inexplicably unable to leave the house—and the claustrophobic, existentially fraught circumstances will expose the savage reality beneath their refined façades…
Photo © Agathe Poupeney / Opéra national de Paris
