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The cast save Anand Tucker’s film, which goes from Noël Coward lite to murderous melodrama
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What is it that opera traditionalists want exactly?
It has become clear over the years that whatever it is they like, they call it traditional
Vagabones review: Irish witchcraft meets Irish opera
Raymond Deane’s Vagabones dramatises one of the few witch trials to have ever taken place in Ireland
This week’s best classical music gigs
Yuga Wang makes her Irish debut, and Vagabones gets its first Irish airing
Madama Butterfly review: an airbrushed Pinkerton but a triumphant production
Why couldn’t a truthful response remain focused on what befalls a child of fifteen, recalling other fifteen-year-old girls?
Celine Byrne is Madama Butterfly: the best classical and opera shows this week
András Schiff brings enlightenment to NCH; Maxim Vengerov multitasks with RTÉ NSO
The Scourge and Hue and Cry: The best in theatre this week
One woman reflects on caring for her mother; two long estranged friends deal with grief
High Theatre: the critic’s choice of works
Michael West’s Frankenstein adaption and a Wexford man without promise of a future
Christmas story brings Wexford tenor back home from US
Q&A with Michael Londra: ‘When I left, it wasn’t to run away but to run toward something’
Great family days out over Christmas and New Year
No need to stay cooped up this holiday season – gift yourself some great days out instead
The strange funding gulf between Opera Theatre Company and Wexford
In the past 10 years, the grant to Wexford has crept up but OTC's has fallen fast. What’s the rationale?
Opera Theatre Company marks 30th year with La bohème tour
Puccini melodrama set in 19th century Paris being sung in Italian with English surtitles
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