Authorship and Authority: Making Testament - A Dialogue with Tarik O’Regan and Dr. Evangelia Rigaki, School of Creative Arts

Date: Wednesday 7 October 2026

Time: 12.00 to 13.00

Location: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.

Admission is Free, all welcome.

Join composer Tarik O’Regan in conversation with Dr Evangelia Rigaki, School of Creative Arts, about the making of Testament, his new opera with a libretto by Colm Tóibín, adapted from Tóibín’s novella The Testament of Mary.

The conversation will explore the process of transforming an intensely interior work for the operatic stage, the shifting roles of writer, composer and performer, and the opera’s own preoccupation with who has the authority to shape memory into narrative.

For further information, please email Dr Evangelia Rigaki at Evangelia.Rigaki@tcd.ie.