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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 ...
The setting is the mansion of Lucía and Edmundo de Nobile, on the Calle de la Providencia in an unnamed city, in the 1960s. Act 1. The Nobiles are expecting guests for a dinner at their mansion in honour of the opera singer Leticia Meynar.
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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 ...
Thomas Adès curated the L.A. Phil's Gen X festival, a celebration of visionaries from that generation. A highlight: his orchestral "Dante."
Thomas Ades: Music for 21st Century is a music documentary produced by LWT Productions in 1999. [1] The documentary is based on the musical journey of Thomas Adès , a famous British composer, pianist, and conductor, focusing closely on two works: "Asyla", an orchestral work; and "Powder Her Face", an opera.