You're not thinking of Alan Cummings' "The High Life" are you?

It wasn't an opera, but a sitcom which opened every week with a hugely camp musical number. It was definitely the gayest mainstream sitcom I've ever seen. I thought it was superb and miss it terribly.

no definitely an opera in itallian ( I think might have been english) but there were subtitles and the man out of the couple has an affair with the pilot.

How bizarre. But I suppose if John Adams can make an opera out of "Nixon in China" then anything is possible.

Someone must know, it's bugging me immensely

> A couple of years ago I saw a really obscure (but good) piece of television, it was on a sun or a sat in the evening on channel4.
> It was an opera set in an airport, with a couple, a pregnant lady, a gay pilot, and an old woman (APPROX.)
> Anyone got a lead?

You must be thinking of the Glyndebourne production of Jonathan Dove's 'Flight'.

Details can be found at http://www.imz.at/vtva00entp.htm

Isn't this forum brilliant sometimes?

>A couple of years ago I saw a really obscure (but good) piece of television, it was on a sun or a sat in the evening on channel4.
>It was an opera set in an airport, with a couple, a pregnant lady, a gay pilot, and an old woman (APPROX.)
>Anyone got a lead?

Approximately old or approximately a woman? Margaret Rutherford?
>

>How bizarre. But I suppose if John Adams can make an opera out of "Nixon in China" then anything is possible.

He did "The Death of Klinghoffer" too - y'know, about the chap murdered on the Achille Lauro in the mid-80s.

michael you are a genius, now I just have to marry Boothby and my life will be complete.
oh, and get a blob lamp.

>a blob lamp.


It's an interesting image..............

Blob lamp?
100W bulb with a condom over it? Or 1950s B-Movie bedside tie-in with picture of Steve McQueen on it?

you guys crack me up.

Have some superglue.

Best if you don't sniff it, though.