A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2025: Vocally sure singing, but has a revamp muted Britten’s orchestral magic?

Review: Lismore Castle’s stage area has been transformed, but accompanying changes may not be ideal

Charles Villiers Stanford: More than a teacher of composers

Music programme to focus on Stanford’s composing rather than his catalogue of pupils

Ben Goldscheider: Legacy, A Tribute to Dennis Brain – Probing reminder of musician

Elaine Agnew’s hopes still afloat for Paper Boat opera

Composer’s Galway 2020 community project postponed twice during pandemic

High sound levels a health risk in classical music

Numerous composers suffer from tinnitus and even violinists tend to end up with hearing damage in the left ear

The best classical music to see this week

Tara Erraught leads master classes in song and opera, Sinead O’Kelly is at the National Concert Hall and Mihhail Gerts will conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

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The Turning: This film is a total waste of time. Don’t even read the review

Review: I can’t even spoil the ending of this movie. There isn’t one. It’s that bad

The Belfast Ensemble brings its 3-day Bash to the Lyric Theatre

A retrospective celebration of the extraordinary canon of work in just two years

Zee Zee tops the bill at the NCH: this week’s classical highlights

The Chinese pianist makes her Irish debut with the RTÉCO under Jonathan Bloxham

Paula Murrihy: ‘You’ve got to find and follow your road ’

Irish mezzo-soprano on her unusual route into a singing career and her upcoming role as Judith, the fourth wife of Bluebeard

A muscular, finely tuned engine at Westport Chamber Music Festival

The muscle cars of Cannonball Ireland were no match for the velvet sounds of Westport

Britten’s opera stumbles from the small screen to the live stage

‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life

‘As an opera singer, work is much more abundant in Germany than at home’

Irish baritone on the trials and tribulations of being based abroad: Tayto, pretzels and Deutsch that’s not so perfekt

Sean Shibe –Dreams & Fancies review: An alluring, outgoing side on show