Bach’s St Matthew Passion: ‘When you’re unpacking a role like the Evangelist, it’s so vast, so enormous’
The tenor Gavan Ring on the work that he’ll be singing at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Good Friday afternoon
Gavan Ring
Festival in a Van: Bringing live performance to your door in a Covid-safe fashion
Here's an Irish solution to the coronavirus-shuts-down-the-arts problem
John F Larchet’s Complete Songs and Airs: Musical comfort food
Review: Irish composer’s soft-edged songs are perfect for nostalgic reconnection
The show must go online: How venues are keeping the music alive
Covid-19 has shut concert halls and productions, but you can watch safely on the web
The best classical music to see this week
The Irish Language Art Song Project , the next in NSO’s Bruckner series and pianist Simon Trpceski
Bring sandwiches for a five-hour Philip Glass marathon – this week’s classical highlights
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan in Wexford; American conductor JoAnn Falletta at NCH
NCH’s chamber music series offers flexibility amid closure uncertainty
Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results
The best classical music to go to this week
The Irish Composers’ Collective and the RTÉ NSO at the National Concert Hall
The Magic Flute review: Riveting music, touching, satisfying performances
Caroline Staunton directs an entertaining, thought-provoking Mozart production for Irish National Opera
Gavan Ring sings swansong as baritone – and starts as tenor
‘It’s a matter of getting your passaggio right and placing the voice in the correct way’
A magic night of Mozart: This week’s classical music highlights
Irish National Opera’s The Magic Flute. Plus: Verdi’s Requiem and Camerata Ireland
From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever
Composers have always been drawn to honour the dead with powerful, passionate music
Gavan Ring: On My Culture Radar
The baritone on his adoration of Capriccio, Di Caprio and Jack B Yeats
Three of the best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival review: In need of some firm quality control
The festival’s favoured production style is at the gag-rich, pantomime end of the spectrum
West Wicklow Festival at Russborough House: the best classical music this week
Highly acclaimed German baritone Benjamin Appl will colse the close the Dublin Song Series
National Opera’s Big Bang! a real statement of intent
Launch of new company ‘a golden moment’ and signals commitment to Irish creative talent
More bang for your bucks: This week’s classical and opera highlights
Chamber music at the NCH; Irish National Opera company celebrates 2018 programme with 12 top singers; and Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky debuts with RTÉ NSO
Unfamiliar with Irish-language opera ‘Eithne’? You are not alone
This ‘unknown part of our cultural landscape’ written in 1909 warrants a full staging
Classical and opera highlights this week
Wexford Festival Opera begins while ‘Eithne’ is presented in a concert performance
Is Dublin finally getting a Handel on the ‘Messiah’?
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir under Mark Hindley deliver a standout performance
Is silence golden? Welcome to ‘the last frontier of music’
Ten years after I first heard of Wandelweiser, Louth Contemporary Music Society has brought it to Ireland
Classical music: A musical storm blows in from Brussels, and Mozart is reborn in a stable
The Brussels Philharmonic made a stylish debut at the NCH, but Mozart at Lismore Music Festival needed a lighter touch
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