Adès brings The Exterminating Angel to opera

By David Karlin, 25 April 2017

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“The key message gets through: utter derision at the sense of entitlement”

Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 24 April 2017

Adès, The Exterminating Angel

The Royal Opera

Thomas Adès, Conductor

Tom Cairns, Director

Hildegard Bechtler, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Anne Sofie von Otter, Leonora Palma

Christine Rice, Blanca Delgado

Amanda Echalaz, Lucia de Nobile

Audrey Luna, Leticia Maynar

Sally Matthews, Silvia de Ávila

Sophie Bevan, Beatriz

Charles Workman, Edmundo de Nobile

Frédéric Antoun, Raúl Yebenes

David Adam Moore, Colonel Álvaro Gómez

Iestyn Davies, Francisco de Ávila

Ed Lyon, Eduardo

Sten Byriel, Señor Russell

Sir Thomas Allen, Alberto Roc

Sir John Tomlinson, Doctor Carlos Conde

Morgan Moody, Julio

Thomas Atkins, Enrique

James Cleverton, Pablo

Elizabeth Atherton, Meni

Anne Marie Gibbons, Camila

Hubert Francis, Lucas

Wyn Pencarreg, Padre Sansón

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

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