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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 ...
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.
During the 2005–2006 season he played plantation owner Edward Gaines in the opera, Margaret Garner, at Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre. During August 2006 he portrayed Prospero in Thomas Ades ' The Tempest with the Santa Fe Opera , one of the few rôles in new opera that he did not originate.
Keenlyside has performed at virtually all the major opera houses in the world, including the Paris Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. Keenlyside sang in the world premieres of two 21st-century operas, creating the roles of Prospero in Thomas Adès ' The Tempest in 2004, and Winston Smith in Lorin Maazel 's 1984 in 2005. [ 4 ]
He also performed in the U.S. premiere of Thomas Adès' The Tempest at the Santa Fe Opera, conducted by Alan Gilbert, Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by René Jacobs, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Berlin State Opera, conducted by René Jacobs, Handel's Semele at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, conducted by ...
He was the first Ferdinand in Thomas Adès' opera The Tempest at Covent Garden, and reprised the role in the work's American premiere production at Santa Fe Opera. He has since performed the role of Antonio in the same opera. [6] Following The Tempest he has been invited back regularly to Covent Garden in operas by Rossini, Janáček and Wagner ...