Metropolitan Opera audiences know the British composer Thomas Adès for “The Tempest,” a svelte Shakespeare adaptation that opened here in 2012. But in his acclaimed new opera, “The Exterminating Angel” (which premières on Oct. 26), inspired by the scabrous film by Luis Buñuel, he returns to the territory he marked out in his first opera, “Powder Her Face”: skewering the sexual and political assumptions of the upper class. The baritone David Adam Moore and the soprano Amanda Echalaz, above, are featured in the cast.
“The Exterminating Angel” Skewers the Upper Class
In Thomas Adès’s acclaimed new opera, he returns to familiar territory.
Photograph by Andres Serrano for The New Yorker
