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Looking for ideas for a new subject, Adès saw Jonathan Kent's staging of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2000. [7] For a new libretto, Adès turned to the experienced dramatist Meredith Oakes, whose work had included a short opera libretto for Miss Treat (2002); since the early 1990s, several original plays, translations and adaptations of classics and modern ...
EMI's recording of the Covent Garden performance of The Tempest won Adès the title of Composer of the Year in the 2010 Classical BRIT Awards. [23] The Metropolitan Opera, New York, included The Tempest in its 2012–13 season, conducted by Adès and produced by Robert Lepage. [24] [25] The same production was seen in Vienna in the summer of 2015.
Opera: 2003: The Tempest: for soloists, chorus and orchestra: libretto by Meredith Oakes based on the play by William Shakespeare; in 3 acts Orchestral: 2004: Overture to The Tempest: for orchestra: Vocal: 2004: Scenes from The Tempest: for Soloists and orchestra: Concertante: 2005: Violin Concerto: for violin and chamber orchestra: subtitled ...
Category: Operas by Thomas Adès. ... The Tempest (opera) This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 16:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Traced Overhead is a composition for piano by the British composer Thomas Adès. The work was commissioned by the pianist Imogen Cooper and the Cheltenham Music Festival with additional funding from Arts Council England. Its world premiere was given at the Cheltenham Music Festival on July 20, 1996 by Imogen Cooper.
Thomas Adès curated the L.A. Phil's Gen X festival, a celebration of visionaries from that generation. A highlight: his orchestral "Dante."
Powder Her Face, Op. 14 (1995), is a chamber opera in two acts by the British composer Thomas Adès, with an English libretto by Philip Hensher. The opera is 100 minutes long. It was commissioned by the Almeida Opera, a part of London's Almeida Theatre, for performances at the Cheltenham Music Festival.
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