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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 ...
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 ...
The opera is based on the 1962 film of the same name by Luis Buñuel. [2] [3] [1] The opera, Adès' third, was a joint commission between the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Danish Opera. [4] The opera received its world premiere on 28 July 2016, at the Haus für Mozart, Salzburg.
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.
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.
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.
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 ]