Sappho’s Daughter
Sappho, the great lyric poet of Ancient Greece, had a daughter – but there is no record of the child’s father. Poet Theo Dorgan had published a long poem exploring and explaining this mystery when he had the happy thought of commissioning a score from the gifted Colm Mac Con Iomaire to accompany the text. With the parts spoken by Olwen Fouéré and Barry McGovern, and with musicians Catherine Fitzgerald, Colm Quearney and Frank Tate, Colm led a masterful dramatic performance of the resulting work in Dublin Castle on Bloomsday 2016. This recording was made on the night by Andy Knightley. For a world starved of live performance Sappho’s Daughter gets its radio premiere this evening.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 20th September, 6pm-7pm