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Thomas Adès, The Exterminating Angel
- Prologue
- I: "You! Where d'you think you're going?"
- I: "Camila, what do we do?"
- I: "Ya ha ha ha ha ha"
- I: "They’re here!"
- I: "How strange! Lucas"
- I: "No, I’ve never tasted it"
- I: Ragoût Aria: “My friends, you must all forgive me”
- I: "Here it is!"
- I: "I’m just in time!"
- I: "What was that?"
- I: "What’s your name?"
- I: "Tonight I feel marvellous"
- I: "Francisco!"
- I: "Brava Blanca"
- I: "Why is nobody leaving"
- I: "That went well, despite…"
- I: "Our first night together"
- Interlude
- II: "What the hell is happening?"
- II: "How did you sleep, Leonora?"
- II: "Gentlemen, quickly!"
- II: Spoons Aria: "Forgive me, Lucía"
- II: "But first, would any of the gentlemen"
- II: "The butler’s strange resistance"
- Interlude
- II: "Over the sea"
- II: "There is a seriously ill man in the room!"
- II: "We are lost"
- II: "We must remain completely calm"
- II: "Silence! I have an idea"
- II: "I am happy…"
- II: "I don’t want to die here"
- II: "¡Consummatum est!"
- II: "This is where the ocean ends"
- III: "What can we do?"
- III: "Water! Water!"
- III: Obsessive Compulsive Ballet
- III: "I can’t stand it anymore"
- III: "I think they watch us from time to time"
- III: "Leonora! My hand!"
- III: "What is today?"
- III: "Aah! Don’t touch me!"
- III: "Quiet as a tomb"
- III: "Edmundo darling"
- III: "It’s very late, Yoli"
- III: "Witches incantation"
- III: "Wait! Don’t move!"
- III: Leticia’s Song: "Zion, do you ask of my peace"
- III: The Exit
- III: Solemn High Requiem: "Libera de morte aeternam"

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"If you see one opera this year," wrote Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times in 2017, "make it The Exterminating Angel." Following that year's production at New York's Metropolitan Opera, which made headlines for the record-breaking high A sung by Audrey Luna in the role of Leticia, Thomas Adès's extraordinary opera has arrived across the Atlantic for its French premiere at the Paris Opera, conducted by Adès himself and staged by the provocative Calixto Bieito. A brand-new cast of vocal superstars is ready to inhabit the heightened mix of drama, horror, and comedy that made Luis Buñuel's 1962 masterpiece one of the most memorable of all surrealist films…

The aristocratic Lucia and Edmundo de Nobile (Jacquelyn Stucker and Nicky Spence) are hosting a post-opera dinner party where singer Leticia Meynar (Gloria Tronel) will be the guest of honor. But after the servants run off, the wealthy guests find themselves inexplicably unable to leave the house—and the claustrophobic, existentially fraught circumstances will expose the savage reality beneath their refined façades…

Photo © Agathe Poupeney / Opéra national de Paris

Cast

Thomas Adès | Libretto
Tom Cairns | Libretto

Calixto Bieito | Stage director
Anna-Sofia Kirsch | Set designer
Ingo Krügler | Costume designer
Reinhard Traub | Lighting designer
Bettina Auer | Dramaturgy

Jacquelyn Stucker | Lucia de Nobile
Gloria Tronel | Leticia Meynar
Hilary Summers | Leonora Palma
Claudia Boyle | Silvia de Avila
Christine Rice | Blanca Delgado
Amina Edris | Beatriz
Nicky Spence | Edmundo de Nobile
Frédéric Antoun | Count Raúl Yebenes
Jarrett Ott | Colonel Álvaro Gómez
Anthony Roth Costanzo | Francisco de Avila
Filipe Manu | Eduardo
Philippe Sly | Señor Russel
Paul Gay | Alberto Roc
Clive Bayley | Doctor Carlos Conde
Thomas Faulkner | Julio (butler)
Julien Henric | Lucas (footman)
Nicholas Jones | Enrique (waiter)
Andres Cascante | Pablo (cook)
Ilanah Lobel-Torres | Meni (maid)
Bethany Horak-Hallett | Camila (maid)
Régis Mengus | Padre Sansón
Arthur Harmonic (Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine) | Yoli

Paris Opera Chorus
Ching-Lien Wu | Chorus Master
Paris Opera Orchestra
Thomas Adès | Conductor

Program

Thomas Adès, The Exterminating Angel
- Prologue
- I: "You! Where d'you think you're going?"
- I: "Camila, what do we do?"
- I: "Ya ha ha ha ha ha"
- I: "They’re here!"
- I: "How strange! Lucas"
- I: "No, I’ve never tasted it"
- I: Ragoût Aria: “My friends, you must all forgive me”
- I: "Here it is!"
- I: "I’m just in time!"
- I: "What was that?"
- I: "What’s your name?"
- I: "Tonight I feel marvellous"
- I: "Francisco!"
- I: "Brava Blanca"
- I: "Why is nobody leaving"
- I: "That went well, despite…"
- I: "Our first night together"
- Interlude
- II: "What the hell is happening?"
- II: "How did you sleep, Leonora?"
- II: "Gentlemen, quickly!"
- II: Spoons Aria: "Forgive me, Lucía"
- II: "But first, would any of the gentlemen"
- II: "The butler’s strange resistance"
- Interlude
- II: "Over the sea"
- II: "There is a seriously ill man in the room!"
- II: "We are lost"
- II: "We must remain completely calm"
- II: "Silence! I have an idea"
- II: "I am happy…"
- II: "I don’t want to die here"
- II: "¡Consummatum est!"
- II: "This is where the ocean ends"
- III: "What can we do?"
- III: "Water! Water!"
- III: Obsessive Compulsive Ballet
- III: "I can’t stand it anymore"
- III: "I think they watch us from time to time"
- III: "Leonora! My hand!"
- III: "What is today?"
- III: "Aah! Don’t touch me!"
- III: "Quiet as a tomb"
- III: "Edmundo darling"
- III: "It’s very late, Yoli"
- III: "Witches incantation"
- III: "Wait! Don’t move!"
- III: Leticia’s Song: "Zion, do you ask of my peace"
- III: The Exit
- III: Solemn High Requiem: "Libera de morte aeternam"