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Updated / Monday, 1 Feb 2021 15:00 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Fergus Sheil of Irish National Opera writes for Culture about their acclaimed 20 Shots of Opera project, which features 20 new compact operas from composers in Ireland. In a year of challenges and upheaval, Irish National Opera's 20 Shots of Opera series turns a spotlight on creativity and makes 2020 a year to ...

Seán Hayden in Her Name: ‘simple and affecting’. Photograph: INO I’m so over Zoom… a personal best in the parkrun… cinnamon buns… two metre distance… Not my words, but a demonstration of how opera can mirror the zeitgeist as readily, and sharply, as any art form. Each of these random phrases is from Irish National Opera’s 20 Shots of Opera: short new filmed works by different composers (10 men, 10 women) for one or two singers and musicians from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Whether it’s Gerald Barry’s crazed music for te...

Theatres across Northern Ireland have been forced to bring performances to an online audience during the Covid-19 pandemic - but composer Conor Mitchell believes they are more than capable of allowing crowds back safely. Outdoor and indoor visitor attractions, museums, galleries and libraries were permitted to reopen after the circuit breaker lockdown restrictions were lifted on Friday. However, concert halls and theatres here remain closed, except for rehearsals and recordings, and have been shut since the original lockdown in March. Mr Mitchell (43) from the Belfast Ensemble, which brought ...