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El famoso poema de Dante Alighieri en un nuevo ballet de Wayne McGregor para The Royal Ballet. La Divina Comedia de Dante es un viaje épico a través del más allá; entrelaza el horrible drama del Infierno y sus maldiciones, la lírica mística de los peregrinos en el Purgatorio y las deslumbrantes esferas del Paraíso con sus infinitas configuraciones de luz. El poema se inspiró en el agónico exilio de Dante, trazando su camino de la crisis a la revelación, guiado por su héroe literario Virgilio y su amor perdido Beatrice. En este nuevo trabajo, The Royal Ballet, junto al vanguardista coreógrafo residente Wayne McGregor, colabora con un distinguido equipo – el compositor contemporáneo Thomas Adés, la artista Tacita Dean, la diseñadora de iluminación Lucy Carter y la dramaturga Uzma Hameed – para acercarnos a Dante y su extraordinaria visión en un estreno mundial.
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This film captures Rattle's very first performance as Music Director; a programme in which British composers took centre-stage. The world-premiere of Helen Grime's Fanfares, which became the first movement of the work Woven Space, opened the concert before violinist Christian Tetzlaff took to the stage to perform the concerto written for him in 2010 by Harrison Birtwistle. Two more works close to Rattle's heart followed: Thomas Adès' Asyla and the pocket-sized Symphony No 3 by the late Oliver Knussen. Finally, Rattle's stunning interpretation of the Enigma Variations brought the concert to a close and then the audience to its feet, filling the Barbican Hall with rapturous applause.
Musician
Cuenta la historia de Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), autora de las polémicas novelas que causaron gran revuelo en el París de los años 20 Claudine y Gigi, desde su infancia en el campo hasta su consagración en la sociedad parisina junto a su marido, el también autor Henry Gautheir-Villas “Willy” (Dominic West), que en un principio actúa como mentor de Colette.
Conductor
Cuenta la historia de Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), autora de las polémicas novelas que causaron gran revuelo en el París de los años 20 Claudine y Gigi, desde su infancia en el campo hasta su consagración en la sociedad parisina junto a su marido, el también autor Henry Gautheir-Villas “Willy” (Dominic West), que en un principio actúa como mentor de Colette.
Orchestrator
Cuenta la historia de Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), autora de las polémicas novelas que causaron gran revuelo en el París de los años 20 Claudine y Gigi, desde su infancia en el campo hasta su consagración en la sociedad parisina junto a su marido, el también autor Henry Gautheir-Villas “Willy” (Dominic West), que en un principio actúa como mentor de Colette.
Original Music Composer
Cuenta la historia de Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), autora de las polémicas novelas que causaron gran revuelo en el París de los años 20 Claudine y Gigi, desde su infancia en el campo hasta su consagración en la sociedad parisina junto a su marido, el también autor Henry Gautheir-Villas “Willy” (Dominic West), que en un principio actúa como mentor de Colette.
Co-Writer
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, a group of elegant socialites gather for a lavish dinner party, but when it is time to leave for the night, no one is able to escape. Soon, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and savage. The large ensemble cast tackles both the vocal and dramatic demands of Adès's opera with one riveting performance after another. Tom Cairns, who also penned the work's libretto, directs an engrossing and inventive production, using a towering wooden archway to trap the characters onstage. And Adès himself takes the podium to conduct the frenzied score, which features a host of unconventional instruments, including the eerie electronic ondes Martenot.
Original Music Composer
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, a group of elegant socialites gather for a lavish dinner party, but when it is time to leave for the night, no one is able to escape. Soon, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and savage. The large ensemble cast tackles both the vocal and dramatic demands of Adès's opera with one riveting performance after another. Tom Cairns, who also penned the work's libretto, directs an engrossing and inventive production, using a towering wooden archway to trap the characters onstage. And Adès himself takes the podium to conduct the frenzied score, which features a host of unconventional instruments, including the eerie electronic ondes Martenot.
Conductor
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, a group of elegant socialites gather for a lavish dinner party, but when it is time to leave for the night, no one is able to escape. Soon, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and savage. The large ensemble cast tackles both the vocal and dramatic demands of Adès's opera with one riveting performance after another. Tom Cairns, who also penned the work's libretto, directs an engrossing and inventive production, using a towering wooden archway to trap the characters onstage. And Adès himself takes the podium to conduct the frenzied score, which features a host of unconventional instruments, including the eerie electronic ondes Martenot.
Conductor
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last play, in Robert Lepage’s brilliantly inventive production. Simon Keenlyside is the magician Prospero, who conjures the storm that shipwrecks his enemies and sets in motion the course of events. Rising Met stars Isabel Leonard and Alek Shrader are the young lovers, Miranda and Ferdinand, Alan Oke sings the sinister Caliban, and Audrey Luna gives a memorable performance as the sprite Ariel.
Original Music Composer
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last play, in Robert Lepage’s brilliantly inventive production. Simon Keenlyside is the magician Prospero, who conjures the storm that shipwrecks his enemies and sets in motion the course of events. Rising Met stars Isabel Leonard and Alek Shrader are the young lovers, Miranda and Ferdinand, Alan Oke sings the sinister Caliban, and Audrey Luna gives a memorable performance as the sprite Ariel.
Compositor
Penned by composer Thomas Ades, this contemporary opera is based on the life of the Duchess of Argyll (played by Mary Plazas), who's fallen on hard times in old age. A notoriously oversexed money-grubber in her younger days, the down-and-out duchess faces eviction from the hotel she calls home. Heather Buck, Daniel Norman and Graeme Broadbent also star in this uninhibited production, with Ades conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
Conductor
Penned by composer Thomas Ades, this contemporary opera is based on the life of the Duchess of Argyll (played by Mary Plazas), who's fallen on hard times in old age. A notoriously oversexed money-grubber in her younger days, the down-and-out duchess faces eviction from the hotel she calls home. Heather Buck, Daniel Norman and Graeme Broadbent also star in this uninhibited production, with Ades conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
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In the centre of the gallery is a pavilion housing the 35mm film Paradise (2021), the final work of the trilogy. It is the first time that Paradise is being shown as an artwork outside of its staging in the ballet. The soundtrack is a digital simulation of Thomas Adès’s orchestrated score Paradiso. Known technically as a MIDI, the computer simulation became an invaluable tool while the orchestra were unable to record the music during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Paradise was filmed in the extended format Cinemascope and is entirely abstract, drawing on the circular and planetary motifs present in Dante’s ‘Paradiso’. The film’s rich colours were taken from the palette of William Blake (b. 1757 – d. 1827, London) and can also be seen in the ten hand-printed silkscreen prints representing the planetary states in the corridor.
