Claudia Boyle

It’s hard not to be bamboozled by the choice on offer. Here’s a selection of the best bits

Irish National Opera’s Offenbach showcases the talents of Claudia Boyle and John Molloy

Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the ICO; Claudia Boyle in ‘The Tales of Hoffman’

Chamber music at the NCH; Irish National Opera company celebrates 2018 programme with 12 top singers; and Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky debuts with RTÉ NSO

New Year’s Eve Viennese Gala – New Year Celebration – RTÉ NSO/Alexander Shelley

From James Vincent McMorrow and Lisa Hannigan to Imelda May’s bid to out-Jools Jools

Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise

Unusual musical combinations and an extreme reaction

1916/2016: a miscellany

All the best in shows and festive entertainment

Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride

Doyle comes to the job as someone who knows how bruising the council can be to clients

Enjoy a bog jacuzzi, live traditional bands to the Clarenbridge Oyster Festival

Inaugural event takes place next weekend

Viola player and partner died in Crete last month

SF parties on at the Áras; but Mick Wallace seems to have sambaed out of town

The singers give it all their worth in this production; spreading it throughout the venue proves attractive and frustrating

Witnessing the highly pressurised construction of the immersive city of Mahagonny for six performances of Brecht’s opera is impressive – it is amazing what you can achieve without planning permission

I discovered many of Weill’s works by following the trail of his tremulous-toned wife

John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas

It is often said we outstrip expectations when it comes to producing talent. But is it true?

Musical fusion of different stripes could be heard at the recent arts festival – with varying degrees of success

40 years of organ recitals at St Michael’s Church

A new film gives an accurate snapshot of the bizarre dynamics involved in a typical string quartet