Thomas Adès and Tom Cairns’s The Exterminating Angel is based on the 1962 film of the same name, by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza. It was commissioned by Salzburg Music Festival, the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Met and the Royal Danish Opera, and premiered at the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg on July 28, 2016. It received an outstanding critical response at the first performance, and in only the first few years of its existence, is rapidly becoming one of the most well-known operas of the 21st century.
To go with the absurdity of the story, Adès and Cairns have created something of an
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