New Irish opera a harsh comment on modern society
Opera: The Last Hotel
By Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy
The Lyceum, Edinburgh International Festival, August 8
Rating:***
The Last Hotel, a new opera by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh, puts four people on the brink of a breakdown in a hotel for the weekend and force-feeds them alcohol, jealousy and despair until they burst.
Acclaimed soprano Claudia Boyle is Woman. She has abandoned her children and plans to kill herself. Nobody plans to stop her.
She ...
