Organization

Stage director

James Bonas

Conductor

Matthew Kofi Waldren

Singer

Soprano

Tamsin Birch

Tina

Mezzo-soprano

Charlotte Richardson

Stewardess

Contralto

Wiktoria Wizner

Older Woman

Baritone

Emily Hodkinson

Minskman

Countertenor

Matt Paine

Refugee

Tenor

Michel Capperon

Bill

Jonathan Kennedy

Steward

James Quilligan

Rosalind Dobson

The Flight Controller

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

Flight

Glasgow

United Kingdom

New Athenaeum Theatre

Flight Dove

Public

Approved

Flight, created by Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis, has become a contemporary classic. It has been performed in opera houses across the world since it’s premiere at Glyndebourne in 1998 and with good reason. It’s that rare gem – an outstanding score at impressive scale that is accessible at first hearing, and a libretto that combines sharply observed comedy with a moving study of relationships, aging, social division and the desire to connect that unites us all. In the everyday space of an airport departure lounge a group of passengers are stranded for the night; what unfolds is a story of humanity, cruelty, hilarity and surprise. At the centre of the storm is the character of the Refugee, based on the Iranian asylum seeker Mehran Karimi Nasseri. Nasseri spent 18 years airside at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris upon his arrival and his story of isolation and displacement remains as relevant now as when he finally departed.

English

Flight by Dove, From (2022/2022), Directed by James Bonas,, Conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, New Athenaeum Theatre, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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