Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim Tonight 7.45pm £15 048-90340202; Riverside Theatre, Coleraine, Co Derry Tomorrow 8pm £15 048-70123123; Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Co Tyrone Mar 10 8pm £15 048-82247831; Lyric Theatre, Belfast Mar 20 7.45pm £15 048-90381081
BARROW RIVER ARTS FESTIVAL
Various venues, Borris, Co Carlow Fri-Sun 059-9172400
PASCAL GALLOIS (BASSOON)
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin Sun Noon Adm free 01-2225550
CLAUDIA BOYLE (SOPRANO), MAIRÉAD HURLEY (PIANO)
NCH, Dublin Wed 8pm 15 01-4170000
Opera Theatre Company had an early success with Benjamin Britten's Turn of the Screwin the 1980s. The new NI Opera is now seeking to do the same, with a touring production, directed by Oliver Mears, which opens in Newtownabbey tonight. Fiona Murphy is the Governess, Andrew Tortise is Quint, Giselle Allen (above) is Miss Jessel, and Nicholas Chalmers conducts.
The second Barrow River Arts Festival gets underway in style on Friday by bringing the world’s favourite piano duo, Katia and Marielle Labèque, to Duiske Abbey. The rest of the week’s concerts, all in Borris House, focus on early and contemporary music, with performers including Germany’s Calmus Ensemble and Camerata Kilkenny.
Contemporary composers are to the fore in a solo bassoon recital at Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery, when Pascal Gallois performs works by György Kurtág, Olga Neuwirth, Johannes Maria Staud, Jesse Ronneau and the late Luciano Berio.
Soprano Claudia Boyle gives this year’s Rising Star recital at the NCH, where there’s not a single composer featured who was born after 1912. Boyle’s chosen repertoire is by Handel, Mozart, Debussy, Walton, Bellini, Montsalvatge, Thomas and Verdi.
