Despite never having visited them, Bécaud chose the Aran Islands as the location for his opera
The Aran Islands have inspired all kinds of artistic endeavours down through the years. We need only read JM Synge’s plays or look at Seán Keating’s paintings depicting island life to appreciate how they have inspired numerous creative ventures.
L’Opéra d’Aran is a full-scale opera in two acts and seven scenes. The plot has been described as one of “love and betrayal”. Music scholar Axel Klein has referred to it as Bécaud’s “largest and most controversial achievement”. It does not contain any spoken dialogue and characters include fishermen, islanders and a mysterious man who washed up half-drowned in the fishing nets. Many of the 30 musical numbers follow each other without a break and the first performance of the opera ran for 110 minutes.
In the pages of this newspaper, the writer of the Irishman’s Diary predicted that a “minor boom” in demand for traditional clothing worn on the Aran Islands would develop after Bécaud’s opera was staged in Paris. This included sweaters, traditional footwear known as pampooties, bonnets and other woollen goods.
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