FLIGHT (Dove) Playlist Seattle 2021 Randall Scotting, Sharleen Joynt, Joshua Kohl, Karen Vuong
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Flight
- Composer: Dove Jonathan
- Libretto: April de Angelis
- Venue & Opera Company: The Museum of Flight across several exhibits of the T.A. Wilson Great Gallery, Seattle, Washington
- Recorded: April 23–25, 2021
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Randall Scotting, Sharleen Joynt, Joshua Kohl, Karen Vuong, Margaret Gawrysiak, Sarah Larsen, Joseph Lattanzi, Aubrey Allicock, Karin Mushegain, Damien Geter
- Conductor: Viswa Subbaraman
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Sonia Dawkins
- Stage Director: Brian Staufenbiel
- Costume Designer: Liesl Alice Gatcheco
- Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Seattle Opera
- TV Director: Kyle Seago
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A slice of life story set in the everyday world of an airport terminal. An omniscient air traffic controller watches over a departure lounge bustling with cynical flight attendants, an excitable couple on vacation, a mysterious older woman, and a diplomat and his expectant wife, all of whom must spend the night to wait out a storm. A stateless refugee, stranded indefinitely in the terminal, listens to the passengers’ often entertaining stories while haplessly dodging an immigration officer.
Inspired by a true story—Mehran Karimi Nasseri’s 18-year forced residency at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport—the opera’s vignettes and meditations on love and identity are presented with winning humor, but without easy resolutions. In the end we discover how empathy for the anguished around us is a key element of human resilience, allowing us to surmount obstacles and fly another day.