Cork talents pay tribute to Cara O'Sullivan at Éiru; Mary Hickson teases Safe Harbour plans
Mary Hickson, left, enlisted the likes of Doireann Ní Ghriofa, Marie Mullen and Talos for the Éiru project, developed with Body & Soul.
Mary Hickson gets goosebumps as she remembers the haunting strains of Dido’s Lament echoing around Cork Opera House. “Ten years ago was my first production of Dido. It was with Cara O’Sullivan at Cork Opera House,” she says, referring to the great Leeside soprano who passed away in January at age 58.
“She played Dido and she sang that lament,” says Hickson, former chief executive of the Opera House and now a globally-renowned curator of a stable artistic residencies and festivals that includes Cork’s Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival.
