Thomas Adès

English composer Thomas Adès conducted a new production of his most recent opera, The Exterminating Angel, at the Paris Opera in early 2024; the critically acclaimed piece was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2016 and traveled to the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera in 2017, all with Adès conducting. He also led the premiere and revival of his opera The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, with new productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, and La Scala, Milan. As conductor, Adès also appears regularly with the Berlin, Los Angeles, London, and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, the Boston Symphony (where he was Artistic Partner for four seasons), the London, BBC, Finnish Radio and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouworkest, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Recent highlights include the premiere of Aquifer, a new orchestral piece, and the premiere of his first ballet score, Dante, at The Royal Ballet. A recording of Dante by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was nominated for a 2023 GRAMMY® Award.