Adès' riveting The Exterminating Angel

Amanda Echalaz (Lucia de Nobile), Christian Van Horn (Julio) and Iestyn Davies (Francisco de Ávila)

The Exterminating Angel

Rod Gilfry (Alberto Roc), Amanda Echalaz (Lucia de Nobile) and Christine Rice (Blanca Delgado)

Rod Gilfry, David Adam Moore (Col Álvaro Gómez), Joseph Kaiser (Edmundo de Nobile), Amanda Echalaz

By Vishnu Bachani, 28 October 2017

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“chilling in its starkness and effective in its simplicity”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 26 October 2017

Adès, The Exterminating Angel

Metropolitan Opera

Thomas Adès, Conductor

Tom Cairns, Director

Hildegard Bechtler, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Audrey Luna, Leticia Maynar

Amanda Echalaz, Lucia de Nobile

Sally Matthews, Silvia de Ávila

Sophie Bevan, Beatriz

Alice Coote, Leonora Palma

Christine Rice, Blanca Delgado

Iestyn Davies, Francisco de Ávila

Joseph Kaiser, Edmundo de Nobile

Frédéric Antoun, Raúl Yebenes

David Portillo, Eduardo

David Adam Moore, Colonel Álvaro Gómez

Kevin Burdette, Señor Russell

Rod Gilfry, Alberto Roc

Sir John Tomlinson, Doctor Carlos Conde

Christian Van Horn, Julio

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Vishnu Bachani

Dividing his time between New York and London, Vishnu Bachani is a recent graduate of New York University in mathematics and music. Interested in tonal music theory and analysis, he has written for The Bruckner Journal and New York Classical Review and has completed analytical research on music ranging from Wagner and Bruckner to Radiohead and Massive Attack, which he regularly posts on his website. Some cherished musicians include J.S. Bach, Gustav Mahler, and Meshuggah.

Adès' riveting The Exterminating Angel debuts at the Metropolitan Opera