‘I think we’ve all out-Zoomed ourselves’: A festival organiser adapts

New Dublin Music’s John Harris on factors beyond his control and keeping streamed performances fresh

Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera

Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video

Karen Power: Human nature review – A kind of magic carpet

Recordings have atmospheric vividness and rich spatialisation

Andrew Hamilton: Joy review – Charting direct line to beginnings

Six works on album sounds disarmingly home-spun

The three best classical concerts in Ireland this week

Paul McNamara, Beckett Chamber Music Series and NCH Female Conductor Finale

An unexpectedly funny and uplifting play about your own death

Review: This is the Funeral of your Life

Musical taste: There’s no accounting for it, especially new stuff

Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise

Classical music review: Two pianos and a cello ensemble

Unusual musical combinations and an extreme reaction

Belfast opera director lands a tricky new job in Norway

Norway’s top opera job is being taken up by Annilese Miskimmon. The post comes with its own dramatic history

The Rising centenary gives RTÉ a chance to rescind its one-time offers

RTÉ tends to give new Irish music just one airing in concert, so its plans to celebrate the past century of Irish music is a very valuable idea

Ergodos Musicians: Songs

Monopoly shake-up? John Wilson muscles in on NSO’s patch

It is likely to be to everyone’s benefit if the two RTÉ orchestras are allowed to compete on the same terrain

The Irish Canon: mad ambition, madder promotional strategy

The stated aim of a new concert series is to create a new canon of Irish works and make them repertoire standards. Good luck with that