Review: Ireland 100: 'The Hunger' at The Kennedy Center
The East Coast concert premiere of The Hunger begins with a harsh, discordant note, immediately conveying that this will be a performance about pain. The short opera, from modern Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, explores the trauma and suffering of his homeland's nineteenth-century Great Famine, as well as its root causes and its ongoing relevance to our […] The post Review: Ireland 100: ‘The Hunger…