INO seeks young participants for new opera

INO is looking for 40 young people to help make up the chorus for the world premier of Horse Ape Bird by David Coonan and Dylan Coburn Gray

Jade Phoenix: the 23-year-old soprano has won the Danone Ireland Young Outstanding Female Artist Award from Wexford Festival Opera. Picture: Mark Stedman

Irish National Opera is recruiting young performers from Kildare and Meath to take part in a full-staged production of a brand new world premiere opera titled Horse Ape Bird. This is a newly commissioned work, written by David Coonan and Dylan Coburn Gray and conducted by Elaine Kelly.

Late next month, INO will select up to 40 young people to take part in the chorus. Then in the new year an intensive process of music ...