Jonathan Dove's opera Flight, about passengers stranded in an airport by stormy weather, was an unexpected hit for Glyndebourne Festival in 1998. The premier English company has revived it twice, it's ...

The beginning of Act 1 sees the airport in the very early hours of the morning, capturing the dreamy, ethereal stillness of a world on the brink of awakening. Soprano Jennifer France, as the God-like ...

Driven by propulsive motor rhythms and percussion ticks, Dove’s score has the same slick statelessness as Andrew Riley’s designs. Here a bit of Copland (alright, a lot of Copland), there some Ravel, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuala Willis drawing roars of laughter as a frustrated divorcee at an airport terminal in Jonathan Dove’s opera Flight at ...

When: Feb. 8 and 13, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 16, 2 p.m Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 630 Hamilton St. Info: vancouveropera.ca It is the responsibility of any serious opera company to produce or commission ...

The first opera I ever saw was Der Meistersinger by Richard Wagner. It was a concert opera, performed in San Francisco in 1986, in parallel with The Ring Cycle, his legendary, greatest work. The show ...