Trapped at dinner, now in song
Thomas Adès turned Buñuel's film into an opera. It opened at the Salzburg Festival in 2016 and went on to Covent Garden and the Met.
In Buñuel's film, guests at a dinner party find they can't leave the room. Nothing stops them. They simply can't, and the evening stretches into days as manners fall apart.
Adès wrote the libretto with Tom Cairns, working from the screenplay by Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza. The opera premiered in Salzburg on 28 July 2016, co-produced with the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Danish Opera.
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