The Metropolitan Opera is about to present the American Premier of composer Thomas Adès’s new opera, The Exterminating Angel, based on Luis Buñuel’s surrealist dinner party film of 1962. The Remarque Institute will host a roundtable discussion of the work,
as film and now as opera, with:
Thomas Adès, Composer
David Denby, Film Critic
J. Hoberman, Film Critic
Jordana Mendelson, NYU, Art Historian
Edward Sullivan, NYU, Art Historian
Moderated by Tamsin Shaw and Larry Wolff
NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
