Edna O’Brien, Margaret Atwood show artistic imagination does not abide by aging

Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results

Famed composer and singer will become the first woman to have an opera presented by Wexford Festival Opera

Soprano Majella Cullagh comes to Dublin for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s latest concert

The Irish Composers’ Collective and the RTÉ NSO at the National Concert Hall

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

Irish National Opera’s The Magic Flute. Plus: Verdi’s Requiem and Camerata Ireland

INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore

Deal would create euro zone’s second-largest lender with €1.9 trillion in assets and over 140,000 employees

Frang, one of the nimblest violinists around, takes on a highly athletic Stravinsky work

Classical music highlights for the coming week

Wexford Festival Opera reviews: ‘Leoni’ and ‘Mala Vita’; ‘Dinner at Eight’; and ‘Il Bravo’

Airline issues profit warning as it braces for further industrial unrest in difficult market

Union calls for airline to agree to mediation in its dispute over pay and terms

The Dublin native explains life as head coach do at one of the world’s great opera houses

Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan

100 musicians will lead Women’s March objecting to president’s UK visit

Highly acclaimed German baritone Benjamin Appl will colse the close the Dublin Song Series

The new Irish National Opera is too risk-averse, while Wexford Festival's rare opera is not so rare anymore. And both need to engage with Ireland’s musical diaspora

Launch of new company ‘a golden moment’ and signals commitment to Irish creative talent