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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.
Henry Purcell, realised by Thomas Adès for voice and piano Vocal: 2012: Full Fathom Five: for countertenor and piano: Purcell, realised by Thomas Adès for voice and piano Piano: 2012: Thrift: for piano: Mazurka-Cortège Vocal: 2013: Totentanz: for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra: Piano: 2015: Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face: for ...
The UK premiere was at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 24 April 2017. [11] The North American premiere took place on 26 October of the same year at the Metropolitan Opera. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] For all of these stagings, Cairns was the stage director, with sets and costumes by Hildegard Bechtler , lighting by Jon Clark, videography by ...
The program will include works by Handel, Haydn and Beethoven in the first act, and Thomas Ades’ “Traced Overhead,” described by a critic as “inspired partly by images from sacred ...
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Thomas Adès curated the L.A. Phil's Gen X festival, a celebration of visionaries from that generation. A highlight: his orchestral "Dante."
Reviewing a 1999 performance by the Borromeo String Quartet, Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Ades's Arcadiana, written in 1994, is meant to be an evocation of paradise in seven short movements. Paradise for Mr. Ades is a place of complexity rather than simplistic loveliness; in fact, the idyllic and the terrifying are closely ...