The Irish Times

Truth as commodity: History warns us to watch out in wake of Covid-19 vaccine

After Weimar-like exuberance will come Covid-19 scapegoating and ongoing lies

Tue Jul 28 2020 - 01:00

Widmann, Znaider, Terfel: The best classical music concerts this week

Beethoven’s knottiest composition opens ICO’s programme; Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel at NCH

Sat Feb 09 2019 - 05:00

Mozart’s The Opera Director from Irish National Opera: the best classical music this week

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s current Essential Classics series ends with a popular selection of Schubert and Beethoven

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann, Quentin Hindley: the best classical music this week

The Czech orchestra is playing three times at the NCH; Stutzmann’s RTÉ NSO concerts are not to be missed

Sat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00

Classical music round-up with Michael Dervan

A celebrated Swedish brass player, a master US percussionist and a Norwegian trumpeter

Fri Oct 06 2017 - 00:00

Tributes paid to conductor David Heusel

The American conductor died on Saturday, hours before he was due to conduct the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Dublin

Mon Oct 02 2017 - 17:31

Early music – and earlier start times – for RTÉ NSO’s new season

Orchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programme

Wed May 31 2017 - 05:00

Classical Music: Choir of 16 voices in the GPO sounds larger than life

While no longer strictly in houses, the Great Music in Irish Houses festival has found good new homes

Wed Jun 15 2016 - 01:00

‘Work harder than everyone else’: Storm Large’s route to success

Storm Large is a full-on, larger-than-life performer, part rock’n’roll, part cabaret, who scares men and doesn’t care about taking stick from feminists for using her sexuality on stage

Thu Apr 09 2015 - 02:00

Susan McKeown: Belong

Thu Nov 27 2014 - 16:00

Iron Gustav: Could this be one of the finest novels any of us will ever read?

Review: Finally available in its complete form, Hans Fallada’s tome is a masterful study of dire adversity

Sat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00

Review: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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

Sat Jun 14 2014 - 21:55

Overnight success: a theatre becomes the city of Mahagonny in 12 hours

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

Thu Jun 12 2014 - 01:00

How the drug-like voice of Lotte Lenya led me to Kurt Weill

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

Wed Jun 11 2014 - 01:00

Opera meets Twitter in Sky Arts campaign

The broadcaster has commissioned a ‘parallel narrative’ to market Mahagonny production

Thu Jun 05 2014 - 01:06

The Irish Canon: mad ambition, madder promotional strategy

The stated aim of a new concert series is to create a new canon of Irish works and make them repertoire standards. Good luck with that

Wed Dec 11 2013 - 01:00

The rise and rise of Mahagonny: Sky brings Irish opera to the box

Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company have been awarded €230,000 from Sky Arts to stage a Marxist opera. Are Brecht and Weill camera-ready, and what’s in it for Sky?

Wed Dec 04 2013 - 01:00