Conor Mitchell: New Music 20×12
For:
Our Day
Commissioned by:
NI Opera
Event date:
28-30th June 2012
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Our Day will be a new opera set against a backdrop of events in Northern Ireland in 1972. That year, as well as being the bloodiest of the troubles, marked the gold medal win for local girl, Mary Peters. Her achievement at the Munich Olympics briefly unified a country at war with itself and created a much-welcomed respite from the daily cycle of violence. It also allowed the country to pause for a moment to cheer Peters to victory. In 2012 it will be 40 years since that win and Northern Ireland is a very different place but still there are people determined to drag us back into conflict. More, now than ever, we need to remember that sense of achievement and national pride on the international stage. We need to remember our day in 1972.
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