Thomas Adès is considered the successor to Benjamin Britten. He made his entry into the lyric repertoire of the Paris Opera with The Exterminating Angel.
The figurative Phil Hale immortalized him in 2002 in an unusual pose. A little over two decades later, it is an artist who is the polar opposite of the painting kept at the National Portrait Gallery that we found last weekend at the Opéra Bastille. Comparing Bastille to ‘a fortress of lyrical art’ (he even renamed it)