West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2026 features Deirdre Brenner’s tribute to the victims of the Magdalene laundries

Beat Furrer’s boundary-blurring music features alongside work by Jürg Frey, Caroline Shaw, Julius Eastman, Harry Partch and Frederic Rzewski

Beat Furrer is among the composers whose work features at Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Coming Together festival

The simplest way of reading US president Donald Trump’s contradictory tirades is as the exploitation of magic techniques. His statements are a perfect example of misdirection

Composer says bereavement ‘kind of changed everything about the writing of the piece’

Although she adores classical and has even played Mozart’s concert violin, for the Austrian musician the world of contemporary music is now ‘totally’ where she belongs

In his debut as artistic director of the choir, Gabriel Crouch conducts Little Visitor by composer Amanda Feery

Wexford Festival Opera 2025: Singers cope valiantly with composer’s awkward, meandering vocal lines

Wexford Festival Opera 2025: Bruno de Sá reaches heights few male singers can aspire to

Wexford Festival Opera 2025: Ben Barnes directs the French-language version of Il Trovatore

From Dublin’s Theatre Royal in 1829 to Wexford’s modern stages, the Italian’s spirit remains woven into Irish operatic history

Directors Ben Barnes, George Petrou and Christopher Luscombe on the chance to bring lesser-spotted operas Le Trouvère, Deidamia and The Magic Fountain to the stage

In advance of appearing at the National Concert Hall, three singers talk about the joy and challenges of performing Bizet’s most celebrated opera

Founder and music director of a cultural symbol of Ukraine makes her Irish National Opera debut this weekend

Opera Collective Ireland is giving Cautionary Tales its Irish premiere. The composer explains why the form is so important to her