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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 ...
Asyla (along with Mahler's 5th Symphony) formed Sir Simon Rattle's opening concert as Music Director with the Berlin Philharmonic. The two concerts given were recorded and released as a DVD in 2002. "The Tempest": the Metropolitan Opera production from 2012, conducted by Adès, was issued on DG.
Five Spells from The Tempest: for orchestra: based on music from the opera. Renamed from The Tempest Symphony: Chamber: 2022: Suite from The Tempest: for violin and piano: based on music from the opera: Concertante: 2022: Air – Homage to Sibelius: for violin and orchestra: Guitar: 2023: Forgotten Dances: for guitar
Oakes wrote the libretto for The Tempest based on Shakespeare's play with music written by the English composer Thomas Adès. Her text, except for a few distant echoes of familiar Shakespearian phrases, is original. The opera was given its premiere performance on 10 February 2004 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. [6]
The Tempest by Thomas Ades (2007, Royal Opera House) Cinderella (2006, China Children's National Theatre) The Tempest by Thomas Ades (2005, Copenhagen Opera House) As You Like It (2005, Young Vic/ Wyndham's Theatre) A Dream Play by Strindberg (2005, NT) Twelfth Night (2004, English Touring Theatre) The Io Passion by Harrison Birtwistle (2004 ...
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Audrey Luna (born 21 October 1978, [1] in Salem, Oregon, [2]) is an American soprano who won a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Opera Recording of Thomas Adès's The Tempest and is the record holder for singing the highest written note at the Metropolitan Opera.
for his own music: Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Boy Who Grew Too Fast, The Consul, The Island God, The Last Savage, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Saint of Bleecker Street, The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois