Simon Keenlyside as Prospero and Audrey Luna as Ariel in Thomas Adès's 'The Tempest'

Thomas Adès’s The Tempest via The Met's Nightly Opera Stream (Archived Stream)

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Thomas Adès’s The Tempest via The Met's Nightly Opera Stream (Archived Stream)
Mon., Dec. 7. 7:30PM EST. 

How high can you sing? There are 8 billion humans on earth but only a handful who can hit the extreme high notes required by English composer and conductor Thomas Ades in his operas. When a soprano sings that high, she almost doesn’t sound human. And in this opera, Ades’s version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, that’s the whole point: the character of Ariel is a spirit, not a human. The Tempest, by Thomas Ades is the free opera stream from the Met on Monday, Dec. 7, featuring a cast that has Audrey Luna singing those stratospheric high notes. 

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