The Woods and Grandma
Cal Folger Day shares the compositional process of her new opera The Woods and Grandma describing how she shaped her source material and how the folk songs of Cecil Sharp guided her hand in the opera’s creation. The Woods & Grandma is a verbatim opera by Cal Folger Day which tells the story of Lady Gregory and her literary visitors George Bernard Shaw and WB Yeats at Coole Park, Galway through the eyes of her mischievous granddaughters Anne and Catherine. The source text comes from a radio documentary by John Quinn called The Two Ladies of Galway.
Presented by Cal Folger Day
Produced by Rachel Ní Chuinn
Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland from the television licence fee.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 16th December, 6pm-7pm