Irish National Opera’s production of Verdi, featuring Michael Chioldi, Soraya Mafi and Bekhzod Davronov, is hampered on opening night
Opera: Conductor Ryan McAdams draws lively, fresh playing to a concert performance featuring Paula Murrihy, Anna Devin and Niamh O’Sullivan
Cork mezzo-soprano on her packed schedule, shifting pitch and the sadness of being away from home with constant travelling for performances and rehearsals
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: Operas were originally plays by the writer and actor Mark O’Halloran
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: In Trade/Mary Motorhead, O’Halloran uses music to explore a transactional relationship between two men and also to transcend the confines of a prison cell
In Olivia Fuch’s production, conducted by Killian Farrell, Amanda Woodbury, as Violetta, meets every challenge of Verdi’s score with strength and colour
Theatre: Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Gemma Ní Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola and Sarah Richmond star in Daisy Evans’s staging of Vivaldi’s opera
Theatre: Richard Strauss’s tale of sex, violence, incest and necrophilia invites excess, but Bruno Ravella instead deploys restraint – to outstanding effect
The soprano is playing the title part – ‘a beast of a role’ – in Richard Strauss’s 1905 opera, based on the Oscar Wilde play, for Irish National Opera
Me & My Money: Fergus Sheil, artistic director of the Irish National Opera
Puccini’s opera is full of antics – and Orpha Phelan gets them all right, from joyous mayhem to emotional darkness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Production designer Francis O’Connor powerfully realises the updating of the story by Jack Furness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Everything is minimal in Éna Brennan’s new work for Irish National Opera
The violinist and composer worked with director David Pountney and Portuguese visual artist Hugo Canoilas for a 20-minute piece with ‘its own identity, its own world and its own visual experience’
What I Do: Elaine Kelly is a resident conductor with the Irish National Opera
Irish National Opera’s clever, laugh-out-loud production, directed by Polly Graham, relocates the story from 18th-century Naples to an Irish big house in 1914
Polly Graham, who is directing Irish National Opera’s new Cosi Fan Tutte as an antidote to cancel culture, grew up with an opera house in the back garden
Theatre: Paride Cataldo and Niamh O’Sullivan, as Werther and Charlotte, make you hang on their every word as they head for catastrophe
Sophie Motley has set the Goethe story behind Massenet’s 1892 opera in an electrifying rural Ireland
The Belfast native enjoyed a distinguished career which saw him work with the Ulster Orchestra, the NSO, Sadler’s Wells Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival
Richard Strauss’ work is challenging for first-timers, but chances are they will appreciate opera after seeing this
Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
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Performance combining opera, poetry and mental health launches with First Fortnight
Staging of Irish National Opera work based on short stories by Melatu Uchenna Okorie in medieval crypt was inspired
Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in
Female composers are grossly underrepresented, but fixing the issue may not be easy
A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera
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