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20 Shots Of Opera: Ghost Apples by Irene Buckley

Irish National Opera's 20 Shots of Opera series features 20 new compact operas from composers in Ireland - watch Ghost Apples, with music by Irene Buckley and text by Jessica Traynor, above: 

Alone in her lab, a scientist studying the 1.26 million square kilometre mass of floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch looks for patterns, and some kind of meaning. By looking at the phenomena of ghost apples, and seabird corpses loaded with plastics, she starts to uncover the disastrous and indelible imprint humankind is making on our planet...

Cast :Kelli-Ann Masterson (soprano)

Watch more from 20 Shots Of Opera here.

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