Podcast appearances and mentions of michael gallen

Michael Gallen, Irish composer, discusses winning the Fedora Prize for The Curing Line, the opera he composed and co-directed.

Following its successful run on the Abbey Theatre stage in 2021, Elsewhere, an opera by Michael Gallen, is on tour and is to visit Cork Opera House on April 17th Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Musical composer Michael Gallen has written an opera called Elsewhere which is based on the true story of a protest in an asylum in Monaghan in 1919

Musical composer Michael Gallen has written an opera called Elsewhere which is based on the true story of a protest in an asylum in Monaghan in 1919

durée : 00:30:09 - « Impi » de Michael Gallen - par : Anne Montaron - Dans Création mondiale cette semaine, voyage en terre irlandaise avec le compositeur Michael Gallen et l'ensemble Miroirs Étendus - réalisé par : Olivier Guérin

The Monaghan Asylum Soviet becomes an opera from Michael Gallen and the Abbey Theatre, Chris Morash decodes the messages of the first transatlantic cable, composer Eugene Birman on his avant choir work, Lamentations, and the waking the museum at a conference in Dublin.

Show notes Michael Gallen CMC composer page michaeljgallen.com Straymaker Elsewhere at the Abbey Theatre (15–20 November 2021) Tom Creed Daire Halpin Fiona Monbet Music Music taken from the concert performance of the opera at St Maeldoid’s Church, Castleblayney in November 2019 and during rehearsals in Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney in October 2021.

Monaghan composer Michael Gallen's opera Elsewhere is inspired by the 1919 strike, occupation and declaration as a soviet of the local asylum.

Pat Carty on Led Zeppelin IV's 50th anniversary, JR Thrope on her debut novel Learwife, and Michael Gallen on his new opera Elsewhere being performed at the Abbey

Three Irish opera/music theatre companies have made the shortlist for three different Fedora prizes; Irish National Opera in the digital category, Wexford Festival Opera in the education category and Straymaker in the Opera Prize Category. In this episode we speak to Michael Gallen, the composer of a new opera called Elsewhere and founder of Straymaker.

This week's podcast features four of the composers whose works will be presented as part of Irish National Opera's 20 Shots of Opera online event. Éna Brennan, Michael Gallen, Emma O'Halloran, and Evangelia Rigaki talk about their pieces alongside contributions from INO Artistic Director Fergus Sheil and soprano Orla Boylan. Subscribe to the podcast here Show Notes 20 Shots of Opera Michael Gallen michaeljgallen.com CMC composer page Emma O'Halloran emma-ohalloran.com CMC composer page Evangelia Rigaki Éna Brennan Music Evangelia Rigaki - The Gift (Doreen Curran (mezzo-soprano), Sean McGinley (actor), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil) Michael Gallen - At a Loss (Orla Boylan (soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil) Emma O'Halloran - The Wait (Naomi Louisa O'Connell (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly) Éna Brennan - Rupture (Rachel Goode (soprano), Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly)

Back in the house is the latest session from Spoken Label featuring the wonderful Annemarie Ní Churreáin. ANNEMARIE NÍ CHURREÁIN is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her publication list includes Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) and a sequence of poems titled The Foundling Crib (Solstice Arts, 2020). She has also co-written a libretto titled Elsewhere with composer/director Michael Gallen and writer Dylan Coburn-Gray. Ní Churreáin is a 2020 Artist in Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris. Her book Bloodroot is available for order here: https://www.doirepress.com/writers/a_f/annemarie_ni_churreain/ Poem read out in this session was: 1. Family Law Additional details about Annmarie can be found at: http://studiotwentyfive.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64kJpSQTUQk&fbclid=IwAR3q7ya5CyBzT0qbvN-3bYFnq76WydOAxicjK2Mj4Xjo-3DLU2KftICHWDo (The Song referred in the interview which Annmarie wrote) https://twitter.com/NiChurr (Twitter) https://www.doirepress.com/writers/a_f/annemarie_ni_churreain/ (Doire Press) https://vimeo.com/287620534? fbclid=IwAR2wQCfckwEU7y1aScx6y9uptKSwU3_rz3uavc_WkGFPdodF9d5qryV4X9I (An excellent reading of Annmarie’s poem Sisters)

Aoife Barry and Lauren Murphy from 'Get Around To It' look ahead to Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2020, previewing some of the online and offline events and speaking to artists Aoife Dunne and Michael Gallen, Culture Night Coordinator Aimée van Wylick and David Francis Moore of VISUAL Carlow. See culturenight.ie (http://culturenight.ie/) for bookings and all the latest event info.

We’re off to Prague virtually with author John Banville's choice of three books, The Dublin City Arts Office has announced its Artists’ Residencies for 2020/21. Jane Deasy & Michael Gallen are two of the current Artists in Residence, Roisin Dwyer reviews Remain in Love, a new memoir from Chris Frantz of Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club.

Musici Chats is presented by Beth McNinch:Freelance violist living in Ireland.Artistic Director of www.musici.ieTo find out more about Musici Ireland please visit our website www.musici.ieBe sure to Subscribe and tell all you friends about us!!Tom Creed-Opera and Theatre DirectorOpera and music theatre productions include The Tales of Hoffmann with Irish National Opera, Owen Wingrave with the Opéra national de Paris and Opera Collective Ireland, Irish tours of Acis and Galatea,  The Human Voice and Susanna's Secret for Opera Theatre Company, Mavra and The Bear with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica, Mavra and Renard with the Royal Irish Academy of Music.World premieres of new work include The Hunger by Donnacha Dennehy at Opera Theatre of St Louis and the BAM Next Wave Festival in New York, Private View by Annelies van Parys, produced by Muziektheater TransparantPrivate View was awarded the FEDORA Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera in 2014, Best Production at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest in 2015, and was named by Music Theatre NOW 2015 as one of 14 notable productions “which are aesthetically innovative and reflect new developments in this genre” .He was an Opera Hub associate artist of Opera Theatre Company in Dublin from 2015 to 2017.He directed Vivaldi's Griselda with Irish National Opera in Autumn 2019 and is developing a new opera with composer Michael Gallen for premiere in France and Ireland in 2021.TheatreHis extensive work as a theatre director includes productions with the Abbey Theatre, Gate Theatre, Rough Magic, Playgroup (which he co-founded in 2003) and a range of independent Irish companies, which have played in Ireland, the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. He was nominated for Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2007.His productions of Watt by Samuel Beckett with acclaimed Irish actor Barry McGovern has been presented at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Perth International Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Barbican Centre in London, the Public Theatre in New York and on tour in the USA.Tom is a member of the steering group of the National Campaign for the Arts

Chris Wasser previews Space Force on Netflix, Irish National Opera goes live online, Artistic Director Fergus Sheil tells us more, composer Michael Gallen & dancer & choreographer Catherine Young discuss Dublin Dance Festival for this year.

Aine Fay has details of world premiers at the Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival, the inaugural Farmleigh Music and Arts festival and Michael Gallen’s new opera in Castleblaney

In this short podcast series we're showcasing talks that took place in April 2019 in Dublin under The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century, an event with exhibition and seminars co sponsored by Dublin City Council and The Housing Agency. In this podcast, the second in the series, you can hear Irish voices exploring how we create affordable housing in Ireland. You hear Jim Baneham, of the Housing Agency, describing what the cost rental model is and how it can work, as well as the first pilot using this model. In 'cost rental' homes, often apartments are provided at cost not profit in a public housing initiative with tenants paying rent which will cover the cost and maintenance of the property. Since Jim Baneham talks of the critical importance of land you then hear John Coleman from the new agency, the Land Development Agency (LDA)exploring the role of the LDA and how it is seeking to ensuring public land is used to achieved quality housing. Professor Michelle Norris, a social scientist from UCD who is an expert in housing policy and in particularly social housing, then shared her comparative research between Ireland and Austria so we have a better understanding of how both systems work and what we, in Ireland, can learn from Austria. Professor Norris is Head of School, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at UCD. Check out a recent publication : Byrne M, Norris M. (2019) Housing market financialisation, neoliberalism and everyday retrenchment of social housing, Environment and Planning A, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X19832614 Here's a piece from January 2019 on the affordable housing scheme that Jim Baneham is referencing on Enniskerry Road www.irishtimes.com/news/social-aff…yford-1.3778016 Pictured are: Prof Michelle Norris, UCD, Dr Rory O'Donnell, Director BESC, John Coleman, CEO, Land Development Agency, Ailish Comford, Fair Rent Homes, Jim Baneham, Housing Agency and David Silke - image credit Arthur Carron Photography And the music you hear in the podcast is by Michael Gallen. For more about this short series The Vienna Model : Housing for the 21st Century go to www.housingmodeldublin.ie and for our main podcast channel visit www.thisiswherewelive.ie The producer/presenter of this series is Helen Shaw, the audio editor is John Howard.

Actor Robert Sheehan narrates Wilde Stories, a creative re-imagining of Oscar Wilde through the prism of his fairytales 'The Happy Prince and Other Stories'. This five part series brings together Irish artists and actors to celebrate and explore the work and life of Oscar Wilde and features interviews with Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland and his biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons. Episode 4 centres on 'The Nightingale and The Rose', a romantic tragedy read by Lauren Coe. The music relating to the story is called 'Press Closer' composed by Michael Gallen and performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and features vocal performances by soloists Rachel Croash and Evan Lawrence. For more on this transmedia project go to wildestories.ie. The radio series is an Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric FM made with the production support of the BAI the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the TV licence fee.

Actor Robert Sheehan narrates Wilde Stories, a creative re-imagining of Oscar Wilde through the prism of his fairytales 'The Happy Prince and Other Stories'. This five part series brings together Irish artists and actors to celebrate and explore the work and life of Oscar Wilde and features interviews with Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland and his biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons. Episode 5 closes the series with the full suite of orchestral movements composed by Michael Gallen for the project alongside a reading of 'The Selfish Giant', a timeless, well loved tale of love and friendship read by Brian Gleeson. The music relating to this particular story is called 'The Most Beautiful Flowers of All' and is performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. For more on this transmedia project go to wildestories.ie. The radio series is an Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric FM made with the production support of the BAI the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the TV licence fee.

Actor Robert Sheehan narrates Wilde Stories, a creative re-imagining of Oscar Wilde through the prism of his fairytales 'The Happy Prince and Other Stories'. This five part series brings together Irish artists and actors to celebrate and explore the work and life of Oscar Wilde and features interviews with Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland and his biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons. Episode 5 closes the series with the full suite of orchestral movements composed by Michael Gallen for the project alongside a reading of 'The Selfish Giant', a timeless, well loved tale of love and friendship read by Brian Gleeson. The music relating to this particular story is called 'The Most Beautiful Flowers of All' and is performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. For more on this transmedia project go to wildestories.ie. The radio series is an Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric FM made with the production support of the BAI the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the TV licence fee.

Actor Robert Sheehan narrates Wilde Stories, a creative re-imagining of Oscar Wilde through the prism of his fairytales 'The Happy Prince and Other Stories'. This five part series brings together Irish artists and actors to celebrate and explore the work and life of Oscar Wilde and features interviews with Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland and his biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons. Episode 2 brings us 'The Devoted Friend', a story of treachery as innocent young Hans is exploited by the greedy Miller. The story is read by Lauren Coe and the music relating to The Devoted Friend is 'Shelter' - an orchestral piece with solo violin composed by Michael Gallen performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. For more on this transmedia project go to wildestories.ie. The radio series is an Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric FM made with the production support of the BAI the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the TV licence fee.

Actor Robert Sheehan narrates Wilde Stories, a creative re-imagining of Oscar Wilde through the prism of his fairytales 'The Happy Prince and Other Stories'. This five part series brings together Irish artists and actors to celebrate and explore the work and life of Oscar Wilde and features interviews with Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland and his biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons. Episode 3 brings us 'The Remarkable Rocket', a darkly funny story of a pompous rocket who sees the world through his own self-importance. The story is read by Brian Gleeson and the original music inspired The Remarkable Rocket is called 'How to Go Off (Like a Rocket)', composed by Michael Gallen and performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. For more on this transmedia project go to wildestories.ie. The radio series is an Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric FM made with the production support of the BAI the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the TV licence fee.

As part of the Vocal Chords series, Iarla and recordist Michael Gallen travelled to Sinead O'Connor's home to talk to her about singing and what the voice means to her. Sinead is widely regarded as one of Ireland's greatest vocal talents and has a strong global following, her success in the late 80's and early 90's included the iconic cover of “Nothing compares 2 u” by Prince, and a grammy winning album “I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got”. Vocal Chords is the intellectual property of Athena Media Ltd and no production use can be made of the podcasts without the direct consent of the producers. www.vocalchords.ie

"This is the most personally involved I've been in a thing. It's taken over my life more than anything I've ever done before." Ahead of In Clouds, a new immersive, collaborative piece of music theatre, premiering at Cork Midsummer, I talked to director and co-composer Peter Power and author Sara Baume about the work and what they're hoping to achieve with it. Specially commissioned by Triskel Arts Centre and Cork Midsummer Festival to celebrate 40 years of Triskel, In Clouds blends original composition by Power and co-composer Michael Gallen, text by novelist Sara Baume, choral experimentation by the contemporary ensemble Tonnta led by Robbie Blake, choreography/dance by Stephanie Dufresne, and an audio visual installation by Sarah Jane Shiels and David Mathúna.

Host Miss Panti Bliss opens the show in her parlour, welcoming guests and offers a ‘Panti Monologue’ a personal observation on life as she sees it. In this episode, her guests talking of turning points in life are Mark Pollock, the blind now paralysed adventurer who is exploring ways to walk again. Lawyer Simone George, Mark’s partner, is in the mix talking about her journey to make Ireland safer for women and scientist Dr. Niamh Shaw talks of her dream of going into space. Comedian Jarlath Regan shares what he has discovered in making his hit podcast “An Irishman Abroad’ while composer Michael Gallen, the lead singer with the band Ana Gog, talks about his new opera project, A Month in the Lock, and sings from the James Connolly songbook ‘We Only Want the Earth’. www.pantisocracy.ie for more

Pantisocracy: Episode 3 ‘Turning Points’ TX Tues 6th September 10pm Host Miss Panti Bliss opens the show in her parlour, welcoming guests and offers a ‘Panti Monologue’ a personal observation on life as she sees it. In this episode, her guests talking of turning points in life are Mark Pollock, the blind now paralysed adventurer who is exploring ways to walk again. Lawyer Simone George, Mark’s partner, is in the mix talking about her journey to make Ireland safer for women and scientist Dr. Niamh Shaw talks of her dream of going into space. Comedian Jarlath Regan shares what he has discovered in making his hit podcast “An Irishman Abroad’ while composer Michael Gallen, the lead singer with the band Ana Gog, talks about his new opera project, A Month in the Lock, and sings from the James Connolly songbook ‘ We Only Want the Earth’. Michael’s band Ana Gog join him to close the show with their new song ‘Roze’s Kitchen’. ............................................. 'Turning Points' By Panti Bliss When I tell people that I was diagnosed with HIV twenty years ago in my mid twenties, a time when a HIV diagnosis was a death sentence, they usually assume it was a huge turning point in my life. They assume something that big, that dramatic, must have turned my life upside down, shaken me to the very core, and changed me in some profound way. No doubt I must have learned something about myself, about life, perhaps about the cruelty or haphazard nature of life’s twists. And they imagine that I have gained some kind of wisdom from it that I will now impart to them. Maybe something about living each day as if it’s your last, or grabbing life by the horns and taking every opportunity that comes your way. Maybe I’m going to tell them to take time to stop and smell the flowers and to not sweat the small stuff. But I have to disappoint them. I have nothing profound to impart. Oh sure it was a big deal. Twenty years later and can still describe every minute detail of my doctor’s 1996 office. His pen lying on his open notebook, the post-it notes by his hand, the colour and texture of his corduroys, the clock on the wall beside a drug company sponsored wall chart, peeling away from the clumsily applied BluTack on one corner. But a couple of hours later at home, I was hungry and had to make a sandwich with the fridge-wilted lettuce I nearly threw out the day before. And that evening I still had to wash the dirty dishes. Life’s mundanities didn’t stop just because someone told me I was going to die. The dog still needed to be walked, the bins still needed to be put out, the electricity bill still needed to be paid. I didn’t start grabbing life by the horns. I couldn’t. I’d just run out of bin bags and Tesco was closing in thirty minutes. Life’s turning points are often much more mundane or unexpected. In 1986 I went to a gay bar for the first time. I’d never really met other gay people before that. I went because I was desperate to meet other people just like me. And hopefully to finally get laid. (I did both!) But walking nervously through the door of that innocuous basement changed my life as profoundly as Harry Potter’s first letter from Hogwarts. It revealed to me a previously hidden secret world that had existed all along hidden in plain sight. A magical world of Witchcraft and Faggotry where a hundred people just like me were dancing sweatily to the Pointer Sisters, while feet away, on the pavement above our heads, the Muggles were passing by, oblivious, on their way to catch the night bus home. There, under the pavement and under the mirrorball, I discovered a tribe like me. Hidden and ignored, they were building a whole new world where we were free to make up our own rules as we went along, and where everything was up for grabs. And over a glass of Campari and orange juice I was changed profoundly. I wasn’t the only gay in the world, I could be whoever I wanted to be, and nothing would ever be the same.

With guests Mark Pollock, SImone George, Dr. Niamh Shaw, Jarlath Regan and Michael Gallen.

Episode 4, broadcast on August 4th at 7pm on RTE Radio 1. Michael Gallen singing Freedoms Pioneers

Episode 4, broadcast on August 4th at 7pm on RTE Radio 1. Michael Gallen singing Who Fears To Wear the Red Hand Badge

Episode 4, broadcast on August 4th at 7pm on RTE Radio 1. Michael Gallen singing We Only Want the Earth

Episode 4, broadcast on August 4th at 7pm on RTE Radio 1. Michael Gallen singing The Watchword of Labour

Michael Gallen singing 'Who fears to wear the blood red badge’

Michael Gallen singing ‘We only want the earth’

Michael Gallen singing ‘Watchword of Labour’

Michael Gallen singing ‘Freedoms Pioneers’