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“Migration Chronicler” for international opera, Shreya Sen-Handley, in top Indian newspapers
Indian author pens epic poem for the Welsh National Opera. The premiere is to be held on October 3 at the Wales Millennium Centre…
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“Shreya Sen Handley is…the first South Asian woman to have written a libretto for an international opera,” states top Indian newspapers
The Welsh National Opera’s Migrations, a series of six stories exploring migration from different angles, is composed by Will Todd and opens on October 3, 2020. Shreya Sen-Handley (Memoirs of My Body, Strange) is one of the six writers, and the first South Asian woman to have written a libretto for an international opera. She focusses on the experiences of the first Indian doctors in Britain.
Other than Jeet Thayil and Amit Chaudhuri, not so many Indian/Asian writers of either sex have had an opportunity to write international opera. Continue reading
“Shreya Sen Handley becomes first Indian woman to write international opera” says top newspapers Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle
Indian writers writing operas for western productions — something that is not unheard of as there have been the likes of Amit Chaudhuri and Jeet Thayil who have done so. But now, most recently, author Shreya Sen-Handley became the first Indian and South Asian woman to write an opera for the Welsh National Opera…
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