Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>.... and 60th Parallel, a 1996 opera by one Philippe Manoury which is
>set in an airport during a snowstorm - this *has* to be a first!

I believe that Jonathan Dove's recent opera _Flight_ (performed at
Glyndebourne last year) is set in an airport.  And then there's the first
scene of Adams' _Nixon in China_.  But no snowstorms in either case.

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