Elektra: Power and passion from Irish National Opera in the Kilkenny rain
Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity
The best classical music concerts this week
Start the new year with the RTÉ orchestra or chamber music at the National Concert Hall
La cucina/Adina review: A production so busy it ties itself in knots
Wexford Festival Opera: Andrew Synnott’s skilful music faces a riot of onstage activity
The Marriage of Figaro review: setting high standards for Irish opera
Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach
'The Marriage of Figaro' and the redemptive power of love
Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production
Irish National Opera’s debut show: the best classical and opera this week
Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music
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
A sequence of visions of Chopin
It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov
Classical music highlights of the week: JoAnn Falletta’s NCH debut
Crash Ensemble celebrate 20 years with special performance and Nathalie Stutzmann leads the RTÉ NSO in Strauss and Mozart
The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera
A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh
The best classical performances to see this week
Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend
Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
Don Giovanni review: Roddy Doyle’s translation is sharp, singable and to the point
Dublin Theatre Festival: Opera Theatre Company shifts the action from 16th-century Spain to Dublin now, and the audience engagement is palpable
In praise of Composing the Island - lost Irish treasures unearthed
The festival unearthed fine compositions that were sadly neglected in the past 100 years
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
How Stravinsky put the world to rites
The Russian, a giant among 20th century composers, deserved an NCH showcase of his distinctive style
Patricia Bardon: From ‘rock babe’ to mezzo superstar
Interview: Bardon, a Led Zeppelin fan who came to opera late, is home in Dublin for Mahler’s Resurrection symphony
Agrippina: Scheming, betrayal and cleavage make for a great evening | Opera review
Handel’s first great opera is a comic piece about a serious subject
‘The day of the fat singer standing in the middle of the stage is long gone’
The cast of a new Irish production of Handel’s opera Agrippina talk about the gruelling demands of modern opera singing, the loneliness of the road and how House of Cards fans are in for a treat
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