Irish National Opera: 20 Shots of Opera review – every one a discovery | Opera
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...
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