claim: Designated Survivor (TV series) has 5 seasons.
evidence: Il prigioniero -LRB- The Prisoner -RRB- is an opera -LRB- originally a radio opera -RRB- in a prologue and one act , with music and libretto by Luigi Dallapiccola .. Luigi Dallapiccola. Luigi Dallapiccola. opera. opera. radio opera. radio opera. The opera was first broadcast by the Italian radio station RAI on 1 December 1949 .. RAI. RAI. opera. opera. The work is based on the short story La torture par l'esperance -LRB- `` Torture by Hope '' -RRB- from the collection Nouveaux contes cruels by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and from La Legende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak by Charles de Coster .. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Charles de Coster. Charles de Coster. Some of the musical material is based on Dallapiccola 's earlier choral work on a similar theme , Canti di prigionia -LRB- 1938 -RRB- .. Canti di prigionia. Canti di prigionia. Dallapiccola composed Il prigioniero in the period of 1944 -- 1948 .. The work contains seven parts and lasts about 50 minutes .