Movies: Thomas Adès

  • 2018
    Colette

    Colette (2018)

    Colette

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    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwri...

    Colette
  • 2024
    The Exterminating Angel

    The Exterminating Angel (2024)

    The Exterminating Angel

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    After last season’s The Dante Project, the Paris Opera continues to explore the music of contemporary composer Thomas Adès with the French premiere of The Exterminating Angel. Inspired by Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist film, which offered a scathing c...

    The Exterminating Angel
  • 2021
    The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project

    The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project (2021)

    The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project

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    The Dante Project, which premiered in London in October 2021, is today entering the Paris Opera’s repertoire. To a colourful orchestral score by Thomas Adès, British choreographer Wayne McGregor presents a three‑act ballet inspired by the alternately...

    The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project
  • 2019
    This is Rattle

    This is Rattle (2019)

    This is Rattle

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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 ...

    This is Rattle
  • 1969
    Paradise

    Paradise (1969)

    Paradise

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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 simulat...

    Paradise
  • 2006
    Powder Her Face

    Powder Her Face (2006)

    Powder Her Face

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    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 ...

    Powder Her Face