Elektra: Power and passion from Irish National Opera in the Kilkenny rain
Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity
Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity
Start the new year with the RTÉ orchestra or chamber music at the National Concert Hall
Wexford Festival Opera: Andrew Synnott’s skilful music faces a riot of onstage activity
Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach
Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production
Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music
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
It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov
Crash Ensemble celebrate 20 years with special performance and Nathalie Stutzmann leads the RTÉ NSO in Strauss and Mozart
A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh
Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
Dublin Theatre Festival: Opera Theatre Company shifts the action from 16th-century Spain to Dublin now, and the audience engagement is palpable
The festival unearthed fine compositions that were sadly neglected in the past 100 years
In the past 10 years, the grant to Wexford has crept up but OTC's has fallen fast. What’s the rationale?
Puccini melodrama set in 19th century Paris being sung in Italian with English surtitles
The Russian, a giant among 20th century composers, deserved an NCH showcase of his distinctive style
Interview: Bardon, a Led Zeppelin fan who came to opera late, is home in Dublin for Mahler’s Resurrection symphony
Handel’s first great opera is a comic piece about a serious subject
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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices