| The Royal Opera - The Exterminating Angel Reviews | 26 April 2024 |
Iestyn Davies (Francisco), Frédéric Antoun (Raul), Sally Matthews (Silvia), Ensemble
Thomas Allen (Roc), Amanda Echalaz (Lucia), David Adam Moore (Colonel), John Tomlinson (Doctor)
Sophie Bevan (Beatriz), Ed Lyon (Eduardo)
Sally Matthews (Silvia), Iestyn Davies (Francisco)
Amanda Echalaz (Lucia), Charles Workman (Nobile)
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The Exterminating AngelThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 21 | |
¿Por quién doblan las campanas? |
 19 May 17 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish) |
This opera finds itself becoming tiring and predictable |
| 12 May 17 / A Younger Theatre |
The post-modern ascendancy of utterly inert opera |
| 10 May 17 / Slipped Disc |
Death and waltzes |
| 2 May 17 / The Critics' Circle |
The Exterminating Angel presents a host’s nightmare scenario where guests who are invited to dinner just don’t go home |
| 30 Apr 17 / Express |
Adès conducts Adès at the Royal Opera: A breathtaking premiere of The Exterminating Angel |
| 29 Apr 17 / Seen and Heard |
Incendiary Adès and Adams |
| 29 Apr 17 / The Guardian |
The cast’s talents are not put to good use |
| 27 Apr 17 / The Spectator |
Thomas Adès' new surrealist masterpiece beautifully and melodically portrays the horror of a dinner party gone wrong |
| 27 Apr 17 / Spear's |
Superb musical direction by Thomas Adès brought out the compelling subtleties of this remarkable new opera |
| 26 Apr 17 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
The indiscreet charmlessness of the bourgeoisie: Adès brings The Exterminating Angel to opera |
| 26 Apr 17 / Bachtrack |
Compulsive repetitions and re-enactments |
| 26 Apr 17 / Opera Today |
Disappointing |
| 26 Apr 17 / The Stage |
Virtuoso writing, dazzlingly executed |
| 26 Apr 17 / Financial Times |
A dining-room apocalypse in the nihilistic new opera from composer Thomas Adès |
| 26 Apr 17 / What's on Stage |
Part existential nightmare, part Lord of the Flies, it robustly resists formal analysis |
| 26 Apr 17 / Independent |
Thomas Adès goes for broke as his opera reimagines the classic film |
| 26 Apr 17 / The Times |
A magnificent, acrobatic display from Thomas Adès |
| 26 Apr 17 / Telegraph |
Anarchy, a lamb shawarma and music of lingering beauty |
| 26 Apr 17 / The Guardian |
The Exterminating Angel makes a powerful impact and leaves a disquieting impression |
| 25 Apr 17 / Classical Source |
An extraordinary achievement |
| 25 Apr 17 / Evening Standard |
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How The Exterminating Angel became opera’s most surreal soiree
More than 50 years on, Thomas’s Adès’s latest opera is a chilling response to the classic film about a dinner party from which the guests have no escape.
More than 50 years on, Thomas’s Adès’s latest opera is a chilling response to the classic film about a dinner party from which the guests have no escape.
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Cast
Echalaz, Luna, von Otter, Matthews, Rice, Bevan, Workman, Antoun, Moore, Davies, Lyon, Byriel, Allen, Tomlinson, Moody, Atkins, Cleverton, Atherton, Gibbons, Francis
(c) Adès (d) Cairns
Performance dates
24, 27 April, 1, 3, 6, 8 May 2017
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