Monday 6 June 2016

88 - Thomas Ades's The Tempest



Based on Shakespeare's play, this strikingly modern opera, features a demanding score which pushes the limits of the singers. Particularly the role of the sprite Ariel, written for a coloratura soprano, is fiendishly stratospheric... 

Here is a clip of Cyndia Sieden as Ariel and Simon Keenlyside as Prospero in the world premiere production at the Royal Covent Garden in 2004 

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