The actor played Medea ‘many years ago’. Now she is directing Cherubini’s opera at Wexford Festival Opera – and rehearsals have become a journey of discovery
Classical highlights: Veronika Eberle, Tallis Scholars and RTÉ Contempo Quartet
Culture Night concerts by Chamber Choir Ireland and Irish Chamber Orchestra offers 365 Variations on a Gesture
Elisaveta Blumina in Dublin, RTÉ Contempo Quartet on tour and Irish Baroque Orchestra
Téada Trio explore synaesthesia, David Brophy conducts SinfoNua, and a choral contrast
The best classical concerts next week
This week’s best classical concerts
Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick
The experience of the festival has been like that of a child of warring parents
Donnacha Dennehy’s The Second Violinist, with a libretto by Enda Walsh, takes the phone in opera fully into the 21st century
Russian fare and a 90th birthday celebration for Veronica Dunne
The pianist shows students how to handle the pressure of improvisation
Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend
Many great composers were also great improvisers, Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner among them
Irish mezzo soprano Tara Erraught comes to the National Concert Hall
West Cork Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphreys struck gold this year bringing together violinist Viviane Hagner, cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Barry Douglas
Giya Kancheli miniatures get an airing while Karen Ní Bhroin makes her RTÉ NSO debut
Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany
Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera will merge to form new entity
Despite denouncing Stockhausen as a charlatan, Brian Boydell was no traditionalist. And Salvatore Sciarrino at Silenzio further cements Louth Contemporary Music Festival’s reputation
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