From 21. January 2024

Flight

Jonathan Dove (* 1959)

Opera in three Acts
Libretto by April De Angelis

–in English with surtitles in German and English–

Conductor: Daniel Johannes Mayr | Director: Adriana Altaras

Premiere 21.01.
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With FLIGHT the Opera Bonn has for the third time (after THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO and the world premiere of MARX IN LONDON) in its program next season a work of Britain’s most successful living composer Jonathan Dove. Based on a text by April De Angelis, the airport comedy literally presents a »no exit« situation: in an unnamed airport, a gathering place for travelers stranded en route, or maybe people stuck because of bad weather, their stories unfold: small and bigger human tragedies, people fleeing from their daily routine, in the end confronting their own existence. Be it a refugee, a controller or a lover waiting for someone in vain – the chamber piece quasi comedy about people in constrained predicaments, makes for an explosive chemistry that is discharged in an anonymous nocturnal airport departure lounge.

Originally commissioned for the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, the opera without chorus, since its world premiere in September 1998 at the Glyndebourne Festival, has developed into an internationally often-performed repertoire wonder. Conceived as an ensemble piece FLIGHT combines different musical styles and mixes modern and traditional opera elements: thereby Dove demonstrates that contemporary works for musical theater are capable of attracting wider audiences.

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Cast

Controller  Sophia Theodorides
Older Woman  Susanne Blattert
Steward  Carl Rumstadt
Minskman  Mark Morouse
Minskwoman  Sarah Mehnert
Immigration Officer  Christopher Jähnig
Statisterie  Statisterie des Theater Bonn
Musikalische Leitung  Daniel Johannes Mayr
Inszenierung  Adriana Altaras
Kostüme  Nina Lepilina
Video  Rasmus Rienecker
Regieassistenz und Abendspielleitung  Alma Gentile
Musikalische Assistenz  Elia Tagliavia
Studienleitung  Igor Horvat
Korrepetion  Elia Tagliavia
Daniel Sun
Bühnenbildassistenz  Ansgar Baradoy
Kostümassistenz  Christiane Hilmer
Inspizienz  Karsten Sandleben
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