Jonathan Dove
5–12 September 2023
Jonathan Dove’s breakthrough work, Flight, is a superb original modern-day operatic comedy which has found universal popularity, with many different productions and over 150 performances to date across the world.
With a libretto by leading British playwright April de Angelis, the opera has both laugh-out-loud and more serious moments as the story of the refugee who lives in the airport – inspired by the true-life story of an Iranian refugee who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, for 18 years – unfolds around the different characters who find themselves delayed in the terminal. Written for an ensemble cast of 10 singers, this opera, with its dynamic airport setting and scintillating orchestral writing – including the thrilling aeroplane take-off – continues to have a compelling immediacy. Listen to BBC Sounds Last Word with Mehran Karimi Nasser, the Iranian refugee that inspired this opera.
→ 5–6 September – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire → 9 September – Town Hall Theatre, Galway → 12 September – Everyman, Cork
Director Stephen Medcalf
Conductor Wyn Davis
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Set designer Maree Kearns
To be announced soon…
Irish Chamber Orchestra
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