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 it's 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. 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 story 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 from 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.
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