Eithne (opera)

Not to be confused with Eithne.

The work Eithne, also known as Éan an Cheoil Bhinn (The Bird of Sweet Music), is considered by many critics to be the first full-scale opera written and performed in the Irish language. It was written by English/Irish composer Robert O'Dwyer.

The work saw its first performance at the Rotunda in Dublin during the Oireachtas na Gaeilge, a festival of Irish culture, in 1909.[1]

The opera, based on a Gaeilge libretto written by Galway Reverend Thomas O'Kelly, covers three acts and includes in its complex plot the presence of stepbrothers, a divine descent to earth and the transformation of a queen into a bird.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "An Irishman's Diary". http://www.gaelport.com/default.aspx?treeid=37&NewsItemID=8142. Gaelport. Retrieved 31 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquiem, volumes XXIV and XXV. Harvard University Press. 2009. p. 46. Retrieved 31 July 2014.


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