Met Opera: The Exterminating Angel

Actors: Amanda Echalaz, Audrey Luna, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan

Release Date: Friday 17th November 2017

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Running time: 180 minutes

Take a seat at the strangest dinner party of your life. The servants have absconded; the ragout is all over the floor; there’s a bear in the garden; your fellow guests are rapidly descending into savagery; and most mysteriously of all, no one seems able to leave. British composer Thomas Adès (The Tempest) conducts the American premiere of his latest opera. Co-commissioned by the Met and sung in English, this black comedy, with shades of JG Ballard/Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, is based on the screenplay of Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist film.