Calixto Bieito added an element to “The Exterminating Angel” that Luis Buñuel and Thomas Adès left out: cannibalism. Adès’ opera, based on Buñuel’s 1962 film “El ángel exterminador,” details ...
Thomas Adès thinks big. Devotees of the composer, conductor, and pianist can hardly complain about his busy public profile. Still, for fans of his large-scale works, hell is the relative rarity of ...
The male soprano Samuel Mariño’s “Lumina,” a suite from Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest” and Ginastera’s string quartets are among the highlights. Andris Nelsons led a concert performance of Puccini’s ...
Something special is happening at the Music Center this weekend, as Adès & McGregor: A Dance Collaboration engineers an interdisciplinary mini-festival of works by Thomas Adès. The British composer ...
Thomas Adès' operatic treatment of "The Tempest," which premiered in London in 2004 and at the Santa Fe Opera two years later, finds the English composer working at a peak of fecundity and muscular ...
Of the “mere handful” of operas written by British composers in the past two decades, The Tempest by Thomas Adès is by far the “most substantial,” said Michael Church in the London Independent. The ...
He played piano masterfully and captivated us with his compositions. Thomas Adès has left SummerFest, but the memory of his residency remains. There was perhaps no more impressive display of his ...
Calixto Bieito added an element to “The Exterminating Angel” that Luis Buñuel and Thomas Adès left out: cannibalism. Adès’ opera, based on Buñuel’s 1962 film “El ángel exterminador,” details ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Calixto Bieito added an element to “The ...