The Exterminating Angel (2024)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2024-02-29
Runtime: 119 minutes
Director: Calixto Bieito
Top Cast
- Jacquelyn Stucker as Lucia de Nobile
- Gloria Tronel as Leticia Meynar
- Hilary Summers as Leonora Palma
- Claudia Boyle as Silvia de Avila
- Christine Rice as Blanca Delgado
- Amina Edris as Beatriz
- Nicky Spence as Edmundo de Nobile
- Frédéric Antoun as Comte Raul Ybenes
- Jarett Ott as Colonel Alvaro Gomez
- Anthony Roth Costanzo as Francisco de Avila
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