Volo di notte

"Volo di notte" ("Night Flight") is a one-act opera composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to an Italian libretto he wrote based on the novel "Vol de nuit" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on May 18, 1940. [Sellors, Grove online]

The opera emphasizes individual suffering and was written as a response to the rise of fascism.

Roles

*First employee (tenor)
*Second employee (baritone)
*Third employee (tenor)
*Fourth employee (baritone)
*Leroux, "a pilot" (bass)
*Pellerin, "a pilot" (tenor)
*Radio operator (tenor)
*Rivière, "the airfield director" (bass-baritone)
*Robineau, "an inspector" (bass)
*Simona Fabien, "wife of a pilot" (mezzo-soprano)

ynopsis

The subject is an individual aviator, an Argentine long-distance mail carrier, during the early days of flying. He is caught in a storm, with no way to land; and the drama occurs both within his family, anxious for his safe return, and among his employers, anxious both for his safe return and the success of their enterprise. [Sellors, Grove online]

References

*Sellors, Anthony: "Volo di notte". "Grove Music Online". ed. L. Macy (accessed 4 February 2008), .

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