Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Master classes, talks, public interviews and recitals in Cork, Kilkenny and Galway

INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore

‘Advice from a Caterpillar’ is a depiction on solo bass clarinet of the conversation in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ between Alice and the caterpillar

Classical music highlights for the coming week

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

From the scandalous opera by Thomas Adès to new work by Crash Ensemble

Opera is becoming ‘sexy again’ and Irish National Opera aims to capitalise on the new interest by bringing opera to the people

New Music Dublin to open with Crash Ensemble on the front steps of the National Concert Hall at sunset

Launch of new company ‘a golden moment’ and signals commitment to Irish creative talent

A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera

Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks

Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick

The experience of the festival has been like that of a child of warring parents

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events