Out of the Ordinary
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A virtual reality community opera about winning/losing society’s battle for survival. Your in-the-moment reactions decide what ending you will see.
Winner of Fedora Digital Prize 2021.
Sung in Irish and English with subtitles for both.

“Experienced through a virtual-reality headset, this is opera like you’ve never encountered it before . . . Finola Merivale composed her spare, eighteen-minute score for two singers, small chamber ensemble and two amateur choirs. Its haunting power is as unforgiving as the story, a myth-like allegory of the relationship between humanity and the environment it endangers.” - Michael Dungan, The Irish Times
“… the real draw is the VR animation, which works very effectively in tandem with Merivale’s music.” - Adrian Smith, The Journal of Music
Cast & Creative Team
Performers
| Soprano | Daire Halpin |
| Mezzo-soprano | Naomi Louisa O'Connell |
| Tallaght Choral Society and Community Choir | |
| Inis Meáin Community Choir | |
| Violin | Larissa O'Grady |
| Viola | Gawain Usher |
| Cello | Yseult Cooper Stockdale |
| Double Bass | Aura Stone |
| Flute | Susan Doyle |
| Clarinet | Seamus Wylie |
| Out of the Ordinary Community Musicians |
Creative Team
| Community participants from Inis Meáin, Tallaght and south county Dublin and students living in rural Ireland | |
| Composer | Finola Merivale |
| Conductor | Nil Venditti |
| Director | Jo Mangan |
| Librettist | Jody O'Neill |
| VR Producers | Virtual Reality Ireland |
| VR Creative Producers | Algorithm |
| Chorus Masters | Lynsey Callaghan, Molly de Búrca, Mary Claire Ryan |
| Répétiteurs | Patrice Keegan, Edward Holly |















