Tara Erraught

An opera on Ireland’s direct provision system and New Ross Piano Festival

Irish National Opera season to also feature new opera set in direct provision

Tara Erraught collaborates with pianist John O’Connor, while Sharon Carty will be accompanied by Siobhán Armstrong

Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy

Opera singer Luis Magallanes: ‘I’ve gone from a humanitarian crisis to being here’

Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny

Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach

In conversation: Tara Erraught and Fergus Sheil

Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production

Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music

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

Taoiseach weighs in, Minister for Arts kicks to touch, Fianna Fáil comes late to the cause

The pianist marks his 70th birthday year with a wonderful coda

Russian fare and a 90th birthday celebration for Veronica Dunne

Many great composers were also great improvisers, Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner among them

Irish mezzo soprano Tara Erraught comes to the National Concert Hall

Dublin Theatre Festival: Opera Theatre Company shifts the action from 16th-century Spain to Dublin now, and the audience engagement is palpable

Opening of the “Ireland 100” festival at John F Kennedy Center starts three-week festival of Irish arts and culture

Characters are given space to sing and shine in impressive updating of a comic classic

The Kerry baritone brings energy and a touch of John Cleese to the role of Figaro in Rossini’s classic opera