Maire Flavin

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

Dublin Theatre Festival: Opera Theatre Company shifts the action from 16th-century Spain to Dublin now, and the audience engagement is palpable

The festival unearthed fine compositions that were sadly neglected in the past 100 years

In the past 10 years, the grant to Wexford has crept up but OTC's has fallen fast. What’s the rationale?

Puccini melodrama set in 19th century Paris being sung in Italian with English surtitles

The Russian, a giant among 20th century composers, deserved an NCH showcase of his distinctive style

Interview: Bardon, a Led Zeppelin fan who came to opera late, is home in Dublin for Mahler’s Resurrection symphony

Handel’s first great opera is a comic piece about a serious subject

The cast of a new Irish production of Handel’s opera Agrippina talk about the gruelling demands of modern opera singing, the loneliness of the road and how House of Cards fans are in for a treat

The new season is strong on singing and orchestral debuts, and composers from Sibelius to Mahler