‘If you see one opera this year, make it The Exterminating Angel,’ ran the headline in the New York Times after the US premiere of Thomas Adès’s ‘stunningly inventive’ opera based on Luis Buñuel’s surreal and satirical 1962 film El ángel exterminador. Like the British composer’s score, Tom Cairns’s production is both spectacular and surprising. ‘Adès keeps the listener on edge,’ wrote Opera magazine, ‘because one never knows where his dazzling palette of possibilities will take him next.’

Cast:
- Leticia Maynar: Audrey Luna
- Lucía de Nobile: Amanda Echalaz
- Silvia de Ávila: Sally Matthews
- Beatriz: Sophie Bevan
- Leonora Palma: Alice Coote
- Blanca Delgado: Christine Rice
- Francisco de Ávila: Iestyn Davies
- Edmundo de Nobile: Joseph Kaiser
- Raúl Yebenes: Frédéric Antoun
- Eduardo: David Portillo‘‘
- Colonel Álvaro Gómez: David Adam Moore
- Alberto Roc: Rod Gilfry
- Señor Russell: Kevin Burdette
- Julio: Christian Van Horn
- Doctor Carlos Conde: John Tomlinson

Set and Costume Designer: Hildegard Bechtler
Lighting Designer: Jon Clark
Projection Designer: Tal Yarden
Choreographer: Amir Hosseinpour

Running time: 142 minutes (main feature)
Colour / NTSC systems
Sound Format: Stereo PCM 2.0 & DTS 5.1
Menu language: English