COMPOSER Fiona Linnane is celebrating the revival of her short opera Off Tuskar, in a new production by Limerick Opera Company, Opera Workshop.
The short opera was originally commissioned as part of ‘Abandoned’, the hit 2019 production which took place in the Old Sailors Home in Limerick City during Riverfest weekend that year. Off Tuskar tells the story of two women waiting at Limerick docks for a ship to return after the famous storms of 1927.
While it has been over three years since the premiere performance of the work, it has now been given new life as part of ‘Twisted Tales’ on stage at The Coach House in No.2 Pery Square over Halloween Weekend.
Linnane is delighted to see the work being performed again: “World premieres are always exciting for a composer but, often, once the premiere is finished a new work sometimes ends up in your archives without further performances.
My short opera Off Tuskar proved very popular with audiences the year it was composed but it has not been performed since. It’s great to see it coming on stage again and to see this story once again being brought to new audiences.
With Opera Workshop you are always guaranteed to see something different and, in the atmospheric surroundings of No.2 Pery Square, I’m sure this production will be enthralling!”
The opera will form part of Twisted Tales – a series of short, contemporary operas for the Halloween weekend performed in the shadowy
environs of the Coach House, No 2 Pery Square, Limerick over the Halloween weekend, produced and directed by Shirley Keane.
Tales of portentous witches, contentious wills and ships lost at sea are brought to you by an ensemble of ten singers and two pianists.
‘Twisted Tales’ runs at The Coach House, No 2 Pery Square from this Thursday October 27 to Sunday October 30. 7.30pm (80 minute performance) Booking at www.limetreetheatre.ie
Fiona Linnane
