Here's what happens when aliens, babies and the Catholic Church collide

Kim Sheehan is seven months pregnant, which might even be an advantage for her dance-opera role as a woman who’s been impregnated by visitors from space, writes Colette Sheridan.

How’s this for authenticity: Soprano, Kim Sheehan, is playing a pregnant woman in a dance opera while in real life, Sheehan is seven months pregnant.

However, the Cork-born singer, described by the Financial Times as having a “(a voice) that sets the pulse racing,” is playing a woman who has been impregnated by aliens.