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Flight

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.

Synopsis

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.

Dates & Venues

→ 5–6 September – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire

→ 9 September – Town Hall Theatre, Galway

→ 12 September – Everyman, Cork


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Creative Team

Director Stephen Medcalf
Conductor
Wyn Davis
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Set designer Maree Kearns

Cast

To be announced soon…

Collaborating with

Irish Chamber Orchestra

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