Based on Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist film, The Exterminating Angel places ‘the bourgeois condition’ under a magnifying glass and suggests they are not actually trapped in a room but in their own heads. Trapped at a post-opera dinner party by some unfathomable force, guests find themselves unable to leave – and anarchy ensues. Thomas Adès The Exterminating Angel (2016) Watched over by angels, the protagonists deliver a parable whose moral is never quite resolved.Ĭhristopher Purves, Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/George Benjamin dir. Set in 13 th-century Provence, the work loosely draws on an Occitan razo which recounts the legend of troubadour Guillaum de Cabestanh, offering a contemporary take on its themes of love, passion and violence. Vivid and compelling, it is no surprise that Benjamin’s first full-length opera is one of the greatest successes of recent years. Read our full review of this recording here. Measha Brueggergosman, Cheryl Parrish, Joyce DiDonato, Frederica von Stade, Susanne Mentzer, Jon Kolbert, Philip Cutlip, John Packard Houston Grand Opera & Chorus/Patrick Summers Erato 6024632
Heggie’s work creates ‘total engagement in audiences like few other theatrical experiences I have encountered,’ explains mezzo Joyce DiDonato. Based on true events, this two-act piece tells the story of a Catholic nun who fights for the life of a man on death row. So which works made the cut for our respondents? Jake Heggie Dead Man Walking (2000)ĭead Man Walking is the greatest opera written in the last 50 years, according to our survey.
0 kommentar(er)
