Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last play, in Robert Lepage’s brilliantly inventive production. Simon Keenlyside is the magician Prospero, who conjures the storm that shipwrecks his enemies and sets in motion the course of events. Rising Met stars Isabel Leonard and Alek Shrader are the young lovers, Miranda and Ferdinand, Alan Oke sings the sinister Caliban, and Audrey Luna gives a memorable performance as the sprite Ariel.
Score
Adès' Ariel music hits frequencies only dogs and angels hear.
Direction
Lepage turns the stage into a sandpit of memory and revenge.
Acting
Keenlyside's Prospero: rage worn like a comfortable curse.
Director
Robert Lepage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Audrey Luna's Ariel hits an A above high C — one of the highest notes ever written for soprano in opera repertoire. She practiced with a dog whistle to nail it.
Lepage's production deliberately evokes Prospero as aging director, making this a meta-commentary on artistic control — Adès himself conducting his own creation.
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