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Met Opera Live in HD: The Exterminating Angel (12A)

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British composer Thomas Adès (The Tempest) conducts the American premiere of his latest opera, a black comedy based on Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist film.

Take a seat at the strangest dinner party of your life. The servants have absconded; the ragout is all over the floor; there’s a bear in the garden; your fellow guests are rapidly descending into savagery; and most mysteriously of all, no one seems able to leave.

The cast is filled with established British names including Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Ieystn Davies and John Tomlinson.

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