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Alarm Will Sound: "The Hunger" at Merkin Hall

Gig Alerts | Sep 16, 2019

Alarm Will Sound: "The Hunger" at Merkin Hall, Thurs., Sept. 19
Tickets: $35, and lower, if purchasing other dates within the series. 
Show at 7:30 pm. 

The Irish famine of 1845–52 is the inspiration for an opera by the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy called "The Hunger." Based on a chilling firsthand account of the famine and English political malfeasance written by an American woman, Asenath Nicholson, "The Hunger" is both intimate in scale and expansive in its storytelling. Dennehy’s score shimmers and shudders, and the singers at one point offer that particularly Irish form of lament known as keening. 

The chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound and featured vocalists Katherine Manley and Iarla O'Lionáird perform a concert version Donnacha Dennehy’s opera The Hunger on Thursday, Sept., 19, at Merkin Hall as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival Concert Series. 

 

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