1998 Operas - Flight, a Streetcar Named Desire, Little Women, Monsters of Grace, the Divine Kiss, Schneewittchen (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Flight is an English opera in three acts, with music by Jonathan Dove and libretto by April De Angelis. The work was commissioned by Glyndebourne Opera and premiered on 24 September 1998 by Glyndebourne Touring Opera. After its large success, the work had its professional world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival Opera on their mainstage in 1999 and was revived in August of 2005. The first US performance was at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on 8 June 2003 in a production directed by Colin Graham. Additional productions have been seen in The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The first Australian production was at the Adelaide Festival Theatre on 3 March 2006, which won a 2006 Helpmann Award.. De Angelis took part of the inspiration for the plot from the true-life story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, for several years, unable to exit the airport terminal. (Some of the same real events surrounding Nasseri were later used in the story for the Steven Spielberg film The Terminal, independently conceived after the opera.) Dove has also arranged music from Flight into an orchestral "Airport Suite" for concert performances. This suite was first performed in Warwick in 2006. British Youth Opera performed a fully staged version in September 2008. The U.S. West Coast premiere will take place with a new production at the University of California, Los Angeles' Freud Playhouse in April 2010. The setting is the departure lounge of an unspecified airport. The opera takes place over the course of one full day and the following morning. Act I has all of the characters en route somewhere, except for the Controller, the Refugee, and the Immigration Officer. The Refugee cannot leave the a... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7453576