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The Hunger

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Photo Credit: Colm Hogan

The Hunger
by Donnacha Dennehy
Alarm Will Sound

Presented in association with BAM as part of BAM’s 2016 Next Wave Festival

September 30 – October 1
Friday & Saturday | 7:30 PM

at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Conducted by Alan Pierson
Directed by Tom Creed
Performed by Alarm Will Sound, Iarla Ó Lionáird, and Katherine Manley
Set and video design by Jim Findlay
Lighting Design by Chris Kuhl
Costume Design by Tilly Grimes

"One of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene." - The New York Times

Underdog history comes to life through new music and old Irish songs in composer Donnacha Dennehy’s opera about the Great Famine of 1845-52, rooted in Asenath Nicholson’s harrowing first-person account in Annals of the Famine in Ireland. Featuring acclaimed ensemble Alarm Will Sound and celebrated Irish folk singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Hunger imagines soprano Katherine Manley as Nicholson and Ó Lionáird as the voice of the voiceless, with instrumentalists integrated into the staging. Old recordings of traditional sean-nós songs dovetail seamlessly with Dennehy’s score, while video clips of interviews with Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, and others underscore the political roots of this tragedy that brought a nation to its knees.

The Hunger reunites Irish Arts Center with our collaborators at BAM, one of the country’s foremost multidisciplinary cultural institutions for the contemporary performing arts (Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie, Olwen Fouéré’s riverrun, Lisa Dwan’s Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby, and Pan Pan Theatre’s Embers).

The opera is commissioned and produced by Alarm Will Sound, a 20-member ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance, and recording of today's music.

Co-produced by Alarm Will Sound and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Commissioned by Alarm Will Sound with additional funding from Arts Council of Ireland, MAP Fund, The Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, and New Music USA

Performed in English and Gaelic | Running Time: 75 minutes

IAC | LITERATURE & CONVERSATION

Understanding The Hunger
in conjunction with The Hunger
with Tom Creed and Donnacha Dennehy

Saturday, October 1 | 4:30 PM
FREE

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Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government partners including the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; the Northern Ireland Bureau; British Council Northern Ireland; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; The American Ireland Fund; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; Bloomberg Philanthropies; and thousands of generous donors like you.