The Guide: The Pogues, Ralph Fiennes, Celine Byrne and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
December 14th-20th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Celine Byrne
La Bohème: Celine Byrne and Irish National Opera leave the audience buzzing
Puccini’s opera is full of antics – and Orpha Phelan gets them all right, from joyous mayhem to emotional darkness
Der Rosenkavalier: Visually breathtaking production provides sumptuous platform for sumptuous music
Richard Strauss’ work is challenging for first-timers, but chances are they will appreciate opera after seeing this
Veronica Dunne’s Dublin home on the market for €2.3m
Late soprano held legendary dinner parties at Victorian four-bed on Bushy Park Road in Rathgar
Tom Hickey’s work ‘spoke to our private selves’, funeral hears
Son ‘overwhelmed’ by depth of feeling towards actor who died last week
Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
Irish opera singer Veronica Dunne dies aged 93
Operatic community loses highly respected figure and ever-present artist for over 60 years
Anna Devin: ‘I’ve been full of happiness and deep sadness all at the same time’
The soprano on ‘grieving for the music industry’, childbirth and singing in La bohème
Wexford opera, virtually: A bittersweet affair in Covid’s shadow
First-rate soloists and the Wexford Factory enliven binge-watching this year’s Wexford Festival Opera online, a Festival in the Air
Wexford Festival Opera goes online in series of free performances
Waiting for Shakespear...The Festival in the Air is an eight-day online celebration
Daniel O’Donnell: On My Culture Radar
The singer on the mural art of Kevin Gallagher, the comedy of Conal Gallen, and why he’s still enchanted by The Sound of Music
The show must go online: How venues are keeping the music alive
Covid-19 has shut concert halls and productions, but you can watch safely on the web
The best classical music and opera to see this week
An opera on Ireland’s direct provision system and New Ross Piano Festival
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You found 10 bags of cocaine and you go to the police?’
Ro learns how to handle found goods, from the master, Hennessy
Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July
Irish National Opera season to also feature new opera set in direct provision
Byrne and Workman soar with intensity in Korngold’s masterpiece
The huge orchestra required for Die tote Stadt made the NCH right for the Irish premiere
The best classical music gigs happening this week
Mendelssohn’s longest symphony and a project to remember the late John Lynch
Madama Butterfly review: an airbrushed Pinkerton but a triumphant production
Why couldn’t a truthful response remain focused on what befalls a child of fifteen, recalling other fifteen-year-old girls?
Celine Byrne: On My Culture Radar
Irish soprano on her love of Puccini, Zadar’s sea organ and why Liam Neeson is her favourite actor
Celine Byrne is Madama Butterfly: the best classical and opera shows this week
András Schiff brings enlightenment to NCH; Maxim Vengerov multitasks with RTÉ NSO
Irish National Opera goes for the big time; Gavin Bryars performs at his own birthday party
Classical music highlights for the coming week
Miriam Lord: Michael D reinstalled with due warmth and ceremony
Smiles all round on a special night as the President shows how lucky we are to have him
Royal Irish Academy of Music set for €20m transformation by 2021
Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy
From fake news to hopes of faith news at Croke Park
Patrick Freyne: Pope Francis receives families, gets selfie with a child and gives a speech with a mother-in-law joke
Pope Francis warns 80,000 at Croke Park of social media dangers
Pontiff met and talked to families who shared their stories and posed for selfies with children
Pope’s visit to Ireland: everything you need to know
Why is he visiting? Where will he stay? and more questions answered
Surfeit of sopranos: This week’s classical highlights
Sharon Carty, Celine Byrne and Danielle de Niese are all performing in Ireland this week
Daniel O’Donnell and Nathan Carter to perform at Pope’s Festival of Families
Pope Francis opts to sit among the faithful and not on stage with dignitaries at Croke Park
Customers feel short-changed by Viagogo’s hidden charges
Pricewatch: Three purchasers forced to pay ‘booking fee’ of more than €100
Another mountain to climb: Celine Byrne takes on Mother Abbess
Ireland’s best-known soprano effortlessly moves from opera to ‘The Sound Of Music’
Catholic priests from Romania being recruited to serve in Ireland
‘Vocations are very good there, with a surplus of priests,’ says bishop
The best classical performances to see this week
Russian fare and a 90th birthday celebration for Veronica Dunne
Classical music: Celine Byrne is key to Simon Walton’s Bord Gáis productions
Russian Puccini, refined Haydn and raw saxophone
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