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The Barbican Centre Announces Thomas Adès Focus in 2020-21

Apr. 01, 2020

The Barbican Centre Announces Thomas Adès Focus in 2020-21

The Barbican Centre in London has announced a major focus on the music of Thomas Adès running throughout its 2020-21 season, featuring performances of more than ten of the composer's works from September 13-June 28. Celebrating Adès’s 50th birthday in 2021, it is the largest UK celebration of his music since the ‘Traced Overhead’ festival in 2007.

The celebratory season will include a world premiere of a new work for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, while The Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst will give the London premiere of the Exterminating Angel Symphony. Simon Rattle opens the London Symphony Orchestra’s season with the Luxury Suite from Powder Her Face, and Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Adès’s now iconic Asyla. 

Gustavo Dudamel will present a concert performance of all three parts of Adès’s Dante ballet with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, while Adès himself conducts Totentanz with the LSO, a late-night concert with the LA Phil New Music Group, and a concert performance of his second opera The Tempest with Britten Sinfonia.


(Totentanz/Thomas Adès/Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano and Simon Keenlyside, baritone/
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès, conductor)

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Thomas Adès
The Exterminating Angel Symphony 
for large orchestra
20'

Luxury Suite from Powder Her Face (1995/2017)
for large orchestra
3(3.pic).3.3(1,2,3.bcl).ssax.asax(tsax).3(3.contraforte or cbn requiring low A)–4.3.3.1–timp–3perc-hp–pno–str
27'

Asyla (1997)
for large orchestra
3(2/3.pic, 3bfl).3(2/3ca).3(2.bcl, 3.cbcl).3(3.cbsn)-4.3(3.pic tpt).3.1-6perc-kbd.pno.cel-hp-str
25’ 

Dante (2019-2020)
ballet in three parts for orchestra
with pre-recorded voices and female choir

Totentanz (2013)
for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra
3.3.3.3-4.3.2.btrbn.contrabass tuba-timp-perc(6/8)-harp-pno(cel)-str
40'

Thomas Adès
The Tempest (2003)
opera in 3 acts
libretto (En) by Meredith Oakes 
for high soprano, mezzo-soprano, counter-tenor, four tenors, high baritone, baritone, two bass-baritones, and SATB chorus
3(2, 3.pic).3 (3.ca).3(1,2.Bb cl, 3.bcl).3(3.cbsn)-4.3.3(3.btbn).1-timp-2 or 3 perc-upright pno-hp(act 3 only)-str
122’

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