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. [log in to unmask] Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/about/staff/web_staff?search=ggvhk Personal hompage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html