Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger review – Innovative exploration of the Famine
This ‘docu-cantata’ examines a painful period for Ireland through compelling music
The Hunger review: An opera let down by its musical material
The composer Donnacha Dennehy struggles to convey the horrors of the Great Famine
The Hunger: A mixed-media opera about the Famine
Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage
The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death
Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival
Donnacha Dennehy: ‘I thought opera was a ridiculous art form’
Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride
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