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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 ...
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
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.
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]
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 ...
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.
The Exterminating Angel is an English-language opera in three acts, with music by Thomas Adès, and libretto by Tom Cairns in collaboration with Adès. [1] The opera is based on the 1962 film of the same name by Luis Buñuel .
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.