The risk and reward challenges facing Irish National Opera and Wexford
The new Irish National Opera is too risk-averse, while Wexford Festival's rare opera is not so rare anymore. And both need to engage with Ireland’s musical diaspora
Blurring the lines between speaking and singing
The spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long history
Can anything be salvaged from the New Music Dublin Festival?
There’s no way that the whole programme can be saved – it’s too big and too complicated for that
The Killing of a Sacred Deer review: unmissable, with a horror that’s unshakeable
Cannes 2017: Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan are exceptional in Yorgos Lanthimos latest
‘Composing the Island’ was a landmark and there is no going back
The event highlighting a neglected repertoire from Irish composers should happen every year
On Corporation Street review: Anu explores what it takes to rebuild shattered city
The theatre company’s latest show explores the legacy of the Manchester bombing
A bit of electrical hum is no skin off Alvin Lucier’s nose
At Dundalk Gaol, the experimental composer doesn’t flinch, allowing the problems to run their course
The shock of the New Music Dublin
A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme
Raymond Deane’s new opera is based on an artist who had a life-like doll made of his former lover
When Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, broke up with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, he made an anatomically accurate doll of her, and that's inspired Raymond Deane's third opera
Out of the chamber and into the world
The reach and reputation of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival resonates beyond the Bantry venues
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is out of touch with the music of its own time
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is failing to engage with modern music, and this needs to change
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