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Sat 03 Mar 2010An Irish National Opera is born
ARTSCAPE: OUTGOING MINISTER for Arts Martin Cullen is expected to announce, on Monday, the foundation of the Irish National Opera (INO), based in Dublin, and the appointment of an interim board.
This major development has had a fraught and controversial journey to fruition, with conflict about whether a new national opera company should be based in Dublin or Wexford. It is expected that the first opera season of the new company will be in spring 2011.
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