by Thomas Adès
seen at Covent Garden on 27 April 2017
Thomas Adès, conductor and co-librettist as well as composer, and Tom Cairns (librettist and director) created this opera, first seen at Salzburg last year, based on the film screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza for Buñuel's film El Ángel Exterminador. As this is a co-production with the Salzburg Festival (and The Met and the Royal Danish Opera) many of the original cast are reprising their roles. These include John Tomlinson, Iestyn Davies, Sophie Bevan, Anne Sofie von Otter, Christine Rice, Sally Matthews and Thomas Allen.
