Met Opera 2017-18 Season: The Exterminating Angel at Town Hall Cinemas

Met Opera 2017-18 Season: The Exterminating Angel

169 mins | Rated TBC

Directed by Tom Cairns

Starring Alice Coote, Christian Van Horn, Christine Rice, Sir John Tomlinson, Rod Gilfry, Kevin Burdette, David Adam Moore, David Portillo, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz

Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera.

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Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera.

Met Opera 2017-18 Season: The Exterminating Angel

169 mins | Rated TBC | Opera

Directed by Tom Cairns | Starring Alice Coote, Christian Van Horn, Christine Rice, Sir John Tomlinson, Rod Gilfry, Kevin Burdette, David Adam Moore, David Portillo, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz

Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera.