Loudest Whisper plan to make big noise with opera

Cork brothers Brian O’Reilly and Paud O’Reilly are behind an upcoming staging of the 44-year-old Celtic concert composition of The Children of Lir at the National Opera House of Ireland.

The much-anticipated event takes place in the stunning Wexford venue on February 3 and 4 next and will see a string quartet, 100-voice choir, narrator and four ballerinas joining the O’Reillys’ band Loudest Whisper on stage.

Fermoy composer Brian O’Reilly first staged his musical rendition of The Children of Lir, based on the famous Celtic legend, in January of 1973 and it was hailed as Ireland’s first folk opera at the time.