Opera – A Restless Art

Traction – an EU research project

An article by Emanuela Barbiroglio published in Horizon, The EU Research and Innovation Magazine,10 August 2022 A prison opera and digital

Early in 2020, Irish National Opera (INO) began work on an unusual community project—a new VR opera, co-created with people from three

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

The problem of opera Opera is a problematic art. It’s not just the extravagant cost of producing it, or the

It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as part of the Traction project. This prestigious art

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the