Eithne (opera)

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

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

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[Gaelport-1] "An Irishman's Diary". http://www.gaelport.com/default.aspx?treeid=37&NewsItemID=8142. Gaelport. Retrieved 31 July 2014. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)

[Harvard-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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