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Composer:
Jonathan Dove

Artist(s):
Claron McFadden
Christopher Robson

Conductor:
David Parry

Background: Flight is an opera by Jonathan Dove, one of the UK's most sought-after composers. Dove's daring and deceptively simple score provides a perfect counterpoint to the precise and witty libretto. Flight, with its subtlety, pathos and humour, bids fair to becoming an enduring classic of late twentieth-century opera.

This three-act opera can be seen as a compelling modern day parable of messy human lives becoming grounded by emotional turbulence.The characters who join the Refugee and the airport staff in the bleak and transitory world of the airport lounge are the married couple Bill and Tina, who are going on holiday in an attempt to rekindle romance, an Older Woman who is meeting her fiancé - a younger man she met in Mallorca - and a married couple who are emigrating to Minsk (the woman is heavily pregnant). There are no minor characters, each has an essential part to play. In a brilliant coup de théâtre all the travellers, including the jilted Older Woman, fly off with new hope, a bitter-sweet resolution in as equivocal an ending as that of Così fan tutte.

CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10197
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 16.62 including VAT, or £ 14.46 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Jonathan Dove
TITLE: Flight - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: David Parry
ARTISTS: Claron McFadden   Christopher Robson   Mary Plazas   Richard Coxon

- Jun-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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