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This is the eighth in our series following a community arts project in Carlow which is an opera being crafted by conductor Fergus Sheil and written by the Belfast composer Brian Irvine in collaboration with the people of Carlow. Next May the opera will be staged in Carlow in one of Ireland's newest and most impressive new theatres - the George Bernard Shaw Theatre at Visual. The opera which is called 'Shelter Me From The Rain' will feature the stories and voices of Carlow town and county. The creative team led by conductor Fergus Sheil have been working hard to get the music and the libretto finished and today for the first time we hear the music from the final scene of the opera and find out what the local participants make of it.