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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: ‘Women and War’: Representations in the Creative Arts
Description: Recorded September 19th, 2023.
*Please note that this discussion contains topics of sexual violence and graphic descriptions of war. Please listen at your own discretion.
‘Women and War’ is the theme of the 2023 Wexford Festival Opera (24 Oct-5 Nov). Developed by Wexford’s Artistic Director, Rosetta Cucchi, this year’s programme uses the medium of opera to explore how war is experienced, endured, and articulated by women. The three main stage operas at Wexford will be: Zoraida di Granata (1822) by Gaetano Donizetti; L’Aube Rouge (1911) by Camille Erlanger; and La Ciociara (Two Women) (2015) by Marco Tutino, based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.
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