# Flight

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 30 October 2024  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/flight/

Presented by State Opera South Australia Fasten your seat belts for Flight, a heartwarming opera full of drama, humour and profound beauty. Set in an airport terminal over the course of a night, would-be passengers, crew and airport workers are stranded by a storm. Unable to escape the airport and each other, events and revelations unfold leading…

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Presented by State Opera South Australia

Fasten your seat belts for *Flight,* a heartwarming opera full of drama, humour and profound beauty.

Set in an airport terminal over the course of a night, would-be passengers, crew and airport workers are stranded by a storm. Unable to escape the airport and each other, events and revelations unfold leading to life changing moments and realisations.

![Performers in colourful costumes strike dynamic poses on an illuminated geometric stage set with blue lighting.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/13769/Scottish-Operas-Flight.-Scottish-Opera-2018.-Credit-James-Glossop.-3.jpg)

Centred on a stateless refugee, *Flight* is based on the true story of a man who was forced to live at Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years, trapped and unable to prove his identity, and who inspired the 2004 film *The Terminal *starring Tom Hanks.

Around The Refugee revolves a collection of characters who are brought to life with a fine balance of comedy and poignancy. Two married couples, one trying to revive the romance and one expecting an arrival of their own, a lovelorn woman and two hot-blooded flight attendants are watched over by the ever-observant Controller and a relentless Immigration Officer.

![Cast members positioned across a blue-gridded stage set beneath an arched cyclorama during a theatrical production.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/13770/The-cast-of-Flight.-Scottish-Opera-2018.-Credit-James-Glossop.-2.jpg)

Composer Jonathan Dove and librettist April de Angelis’s opera for our times comes to life in a compelling and visually stunning production. Australian Director Stephen Barlow makes his long-awaited professional debut on home soil and British Conductor Charlotte Corderoy leads the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and a world-class cast including counter tenor James Laing, Anna Voshege, Henry Choo, Ashlyn Tymms, Samuel Dale Johnson, Jeremy Tatchell, Fiona McArdle, Cherie Boogaart and featuring Teddy Tahu Rhodes.

*Flight* returns to Adelaide almost 20 years after its Australian premiere at the Adelaide Festival in 2006, with a powerful production by Scottish Opera never seen before in the Southern Hemisphere.

Prepare to board as *Flight* takes off for an exclusive 3-show season at Her Majesty’s Theatre.

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![Flight](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/13772/Scottish-Operas-Flight.-Scottish-Opera-2018.-Credit-James-Glossop.-6.jpg)

![Flight](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/13773/PETERA1.jpg)

![Flight](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/13774/Marie-McLaughlin-as-Older-Woman-in-Flight.-Scottish-Opera-2018.-Credit-James-Glossop.jpg)