ELSEWHERE a new opera by Michael Gallen

Elsewhere is a new large-scale opera/music-theatre work based on the story of the 1919 Monaghan Asylum Soviet. Co-commissioned by Cie Miroirs Étendus, the Opéra de Rouen-Normandie and Creative Ireland, the opera will also be co-produced in Ireland by the new music-theatre company, Straymaker, with the support of the Arts Council and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.

Concept/Composition: Michael Gallen

Libretto: Annemarie Ní Churreain, Dylan Coburn Gray, Michael Gallen

Director: Tom Creed

Producer: Straymaker (Irl) – dir. Michael Gallen, prod. Maura O’Keeffe

Co-producers (thus far): Miroirs Étendus (Fr), Opéra de Rouen Normandie (Fr)

Associate Partners/Funders (thus far): Arts Council Ireland, Monaghan Arts Office, Centre

Culturel Irlandais, Irish National Opera, Íontas Theatre.

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