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Review: Confidence permeates opening night of opera famed for its massiveness
Orla Boylan
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Classical music highlights for the coming week
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Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the ICO; Claudia Boyle in ‘The Tales of Hoffman’
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There were, of course, multiple pleasures along the way – this was a leading Czech orchestra playing some of the greatest Czech music
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2012 Dublin International Piano Competition winner Nikolay Khozyainov returns to NCH
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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
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This ‘unknown part of our cultural landscape’ written in 1909 warrants a full staging
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Wexford Festival Opera begins while ‘Eithne’ is presented in a concert performance
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Music-making does not come much purer than in Masaaki Suzuki’s approach to Bach at the NCH
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NI Opera’s ‘Turandot’ is stunning, while Leif Ove Andsnes enjoys stint at the NCH
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