Luigi Dallapiccola’s 1939 one-act opera Volo di notte (Night Flight), based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, comes to the Akademietheater in Munich tomorrow night.

The opera is a coproduction between the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding and the Munich Music Conservatoire. Tobias Peschanel conducts; stage direction is by Igor Pison; the stage design and costumes by Evelin Maria Arwek.

Our English introduction is here.

Here is some further reading (in German) from our archives (on sometimes dodgy typewriters). Click the images for PDF files.

Our “Propaganda” folder from the 1950s

Die Story – Nachtflug

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