Elaine Agnew’s hopes still afloat for Paper Boat opera

Composer’s Galway 2020 community project postponed twice during pandemic

Don’t sing so close to me: Choirs in the Covid era

Once a communal activity, choral singing has been a high-risk one during the pandemic

Musical ups and downs in a year of change and challenge

Year in Culture Review: Key directors stepped down, while performers stepped up in classical music and opera

New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm

Michael Dervan: Against the odds, Defrosted event offered memorable performances

Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra at the NCH: the best classical music this week

Choirland, a collection of 15 pieces for unaccompanied choir, goes on tour

‘Powder Her Face’, New Music Festival: the best in opera and classical music this week

From the scandalous opera by Thomas Adès to new work by Crash Ensemble

Orchestra funding should be ringfenced at RTE, says Martin

New Music Dublin festival director claims rumoured cutbacks would have trickle-down effect

‘I thought music college would be like Fame, with people hanging from chandeliers’

From his earliest days in a rock band to his years in music college, David Fennessy realised he would be composing music rather than performing the works of others

James MacMillan - Since it was the day of Preparation album review

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Classical music: Playing outside the pit can broaden your horizons

Orchestra members fulfil vital extracurricular functions such as providing music education and road-testing new music

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Does the Budget mark the end of austerity? Not for the arts

None of the Budget’s so-called feelgood factor reached the arts, which received no boost in funding

Michael Symmons Roberts: a religious poet in the secular age

Michael Symmons Roberts is at home in science as he is in scripture, as happy with the sensory world as with the transcendent – which makes his poetry all the stronger

The way to Wexford: a strange beauty behind the scenes at the opera

Attending rehearsals of a Massenet double bill ahead of the Wexford Festival Opera was a deja vu experience