Thomas Adès - Ades: Exterminating Angel (Met) - BLU-RAY

If you see one opera this year, make it The Exterminating Angel, ran the headline in the New York Times after the US premiere of Thomas Adès' Inchstunningly inventiveInch opera based on Luis Buñuel's surreal and satirical 1962 film El ángel exterminador. Like the British composer's score, Tom Cairns' production is both spectacular and surprising. InchAdès keeps the listener on edge,Inch wrote Opera magazine, Inchbecause one never knows where his dazzling palette of possibilities will take him next.Inch Thomas Adès TITLE Adès The Exterminating Angel (MET)(DVD) tag PRX/Warner Classics/Parlophone

Recorded at the Teatro Malibran of La Fenice in Venice as part of the celebrations of the third centenary of Galuppi’s birth, this sumptuous production is the first performance of L’Olimpiade in modern times, and a world premiere recording. Galuppi (1706-1785) was considered the leading exponent of Venetian comic opera, if not its absolute creator, but it was not until recently that his non-comic operas have begun to receive serious attention. One of the lesser known renditions of Pietro Metastasio’s original 1733 libretti, this deeply emotional opera takes place in Olympia during the games and focuses on a love triangle between two best friends Megacle and Licida, and the object of their joint affection, Aristea. The Orchestra Barocca di Venezia, conducted by baroque expert Andrea Marcon, plays on original instruments from the 18th century.

A new production by Opera de Lille