My pet and me: ‘They just make everything better’
Familiar faces on their ‘calming’ alpacas, Basset Hound bosses and magnificent horses
Communal virtuosity is abundant in NSO’s Strauss performance
National Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada perform almost flawlessly
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
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
The unpredictable sounds of an American Wolff in Dundalk
The composer Christian Wolff, of the New York School, was central to a memorable night in Louth
The Magic Flute in a circus makes for a frustrating experience in Lismore
The looseness of the ensemble and problems with co-ordination proved largely insurmountable
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