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Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, the home of Opera Ireland from its inception in 1985 until its demise in 2010

The Irish National Opera was created from a merger of the Opera Theatre Company (OTC) and Wide Open Opera in 2017 and launched in January 2018.[1] The new entity continues the tradition of the former Opera Ireland (Irish: Ceoldráma Éireann),[2][3] Ireland's first permanent national opera company. Although its roots go back to 1941 as the Dublin Grand Opera Society, the company was established in its final form in 1985 as the Dublin Grand Opera Society Ltd. From 1996 until its demise in 2010 it was known as Opera Ireland. During its existence it was based at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.[4]

History

Beginnings

The Dublin Grand Opera Society (DGOS) was founded in 1941 by Captain (later Colonel) William O'Kelly and a group of opera enthusiasts with

Prague National Theatre.[5]

Development and demise

In the mid-1980s, after a particularly shambolic production of

National Chamber Choir of Ireland. The British theatre and opera director Michael McCaffery was appointed the company's first artistic director in 1986 and the company continued presenting two one-week seasons each year with two productions each season.[6][5]

According to Michael Dervan, the music critic of

Royal Danish Opera, Dorothea Glatt took over. Glatt combined her post at DGOS with her ongoing work as the assistant to Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival. Her tenure was not a particularly successful one and in 1996 the company advertised once again for a new artistic director. That same year it also officially re-branded itself as Opera Ireland.[7][4]

Opera Ireland ceased operation in 2010. The

Arts Council of Ireland had planned to create the Irish National Opera.[citation needed
]

Irish National Opera

The project was restarted in 2017 with the formation of a new Irish National Opera to be formed under from the merger of Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera with Fergus Sheil as artistic director. The Irish National Opera officially launched in January 2018 with a production of Thomas Adès's chamber opera Powder Her Face.[1][8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b Dervan, Michael (3 July 2017). "Arts Council announces new opera company".The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Arts Council annual review 2006" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Cuireann an Chomhairle Ealaíon a comhbhrón in iúl ar chloisteáil faoi bhás Monica Frawley". www.artscouncil.ie. 19 February 2020.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0674011635
  5. ^ a b Brennan, Paddy (May 2016). "DGOS/Opera Ireland. A forgotten legacy?". Classical Arts Ireland. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  6. ^ Dervan, Michael (19 November 2010). "Final curtain for Opera Ireland". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  7. ^ Dervan, Michael (11 April 1996). "Back at the crossroads". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  8. ^ Parr, Freya (9 January 2018). "Irish National Opera launches tonight".BBC Music Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  9. ^ Irish Times 9 Jan 2018 Irish National Opera launches with a Big Bang! A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera

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