Darren sings the role of Eddie KGB in this crazy and brilliant new opera by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff

Venue :Grand Opera House, Belfast
Times : 21 Oct 2010 7:30PM – 23 Oct 2010 7:32PM
Booking information : Tickets: £15 – £25 Half price student concessions available Booking for this event through the Grand Opera House at www.goh.co.uk or (028) 9024 1919.
Postcards from Dumbworld World premiere of a new chamber opera
Composer/Conductor Brian Irvine
Writer/Director John McIlduff
Designer Diego Pitarch
“While others bang on about the besieging of time-honoured genre boundaries by contemporary music, the Brian Irvine Ensemble simply operates as if those boundaries had never even existed…a joy” Andrew Johnstone, Irish Times – Postcards from Dumbworld preview
“Some of the most exhilarating and imaginative music you’ll ever hope to hear…tightly written and superbly paced… exuberant, spontaneous and irresistibly alive.” Washington Post
Set in a bingo hall, with appearances from KGB agents, giant rabbits and quite possibly your next door neighbour, this new opera by award winning composer Brian Irvine certainly ‘breaks the bubble’ when it comes to most people’s perception of opera. Poignant, comic, poetic, uplifting, Postcards from Dumbworld follows the journey of several interconnected individuals – their hopes, aspirations, magnetic oddness and fragile beauty. It is a world that is at once surreal and familiar; fuelled by dreams and a quest for the moment when things make sense. Performed by outstanding international cast of 24 singers and musicians, Postcards from Dumbworld conjures up a unique sound world that has overtones of Britten or Tom Waits or Berg or Kurt Weill but feels like David Lynch or Lars Von Trier or Roy Anderson.