A room of one’s own for many women - Outi Tarkiainen dramatises Virginia Woolf’s classic essay in her new opera
A room of one’s own for many women - Outi Tarkiainen dramatises Virginia Woolf’s classic essay in her new opera
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” is the key sentence in the essay A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). Published in 1929, it is a discussion of why women have remained so overwhelmingly in the shadow of men as writers and more generally in society at large. The world premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s new opera in Hagen, Germany on 14 May 2022 asks the same question – but how does this translate from essay to opera?
