Frances Pappas

Salzburg Festival | 2016

THOMAS ADÈS • THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

World premiere July 28th, 2016 | Haus für Mozart, Salzburg

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Opera in two acts by Thomas Adès (*1971)
Text by Tom Cairns (*1952) in collaboration with Thomas Adès
based on Luis Buñuel’s and Luis Alcoriza’s screenplay for the film El ángel exterminador by Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)

Work commissioned by the Salzburg Festival in coproduction with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and Den Kongelige Opera, Copenhagen

Performances

With German and English surtitles

CREATIVE TEAM

Thomas Adès, Conductor
Tom Cairns, Director
Hildegard Bechtler, Sets and Costumes
Jon Clark, Lighting
Christian Arseni, Dramaturgy
Alois Glaßner, Chorus Master

CAST

Amanda Echalaz, Lucía
Audrey Luna, Leticia
Anne Sofie von Otter, Leonora
Sally Matthews, Silvia
Christine Rice, Blanca
Sophie Bevan, Beatriz
Charles Workman, Nobile
Frédéric Antoun, Raúl
David Adam Moore, Colonel
Iestyn Davies, Francisco
Ed Lyon, Eduardo
Eric Halfvarson, Russell
Thomas Allen, Roc
John Tomlinson, Doctor
Morgan Moody, Julio
Franz Gürtelschmied, Enrique
Rafael Fingerlos, Pablo
Frances Pappas, Meni
Anna Maria Dur, Camila

Salzburger Bachchor
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien