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Soprano Amy Ní Fhearraigh
The best classical music and opera to see this week

Wednesday, September 25th Cara — A Celebration NCH, Dublin   It was a story you wouldn’t dare to make up. Mozart’s Così fan tutte is a tale of i(...)

‘When God was giving out brains, you were in the queue for testicles!’
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You found 10 bags of cocaine and you go to the police?’

Hennessy looks at me like he’s imagining killing me with his bare hands. Which he almost certainly is. “You did what?” he goes. I’m there, “I found (...)

Amy Ní Fhearraigh, Raphaela Mangan and Sarah Power, rehearsing before the launch of Irish National Opera’s new season. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July

A new Irish opera about Rosemary Kennedy, sister of US president John F Kennedy is one of two world premieres to feature in Irish National Opera’s (IN(...)

Los Angeles composer Steven Takasugi: his Sideshow is, on reflection, theatrical as well as musical
Byrne and Workman soar with intensity in Korngold’s masterpiece

Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s third opera, provides an almost textbook example of the vagaries of operatic fortune. In Dec(...)

Soprano Anna Devin will be one of the soloists to feature at the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Jörg Widmann’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise Symphony
The best classical music gigs happening this week

Wednesday, April 10th  John Lynch Chamber Music Project National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Recital Room, 7.30pm, €17.50 nch.ie The John Lynch C(...)

Celine Byrne (Madama Butterfly Cio-Cio-San) and Julian Hubbard (BF Pinkerton) in Irish National Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly with the RTE Concert Orchestra in Bord Gåis Energy Theatre 22 - 30 March and Cork Opera House April 4th and 5th. Photograph: Pat Redmond
Madama Butterfly review: an airbrushed Pinkerton but a triumphant production
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  • March 25, 2019, 10:13

I need a director to hate Lieutenant Pinkerton as fiercely as I do. Because Butterfly was only fifteen. After meeting and purchasing the child throug(...)

Irish soprano Celine Byrne on Liam Neeson: ‘I think his recent comments were taken out of context. If you listen to the whole interview, the subject of the whole thing was revenge violence.’
Celine Byrne: On My Culture Radar

Current favourite restaurant? I live out in the country, Caragh in Kildare, and I’d normally go to Las Radas there, which serves delicious tapas. Pep(...)

Celine Byrne makes her Irish National Opera debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
Celine Byrne is Madama Butterfly: the best classical and opera shows this week

Saturday March 23  ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT/ANDRÁS SCHIFF NCH, Dublin 8pm €35-€70 nch.ie The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment(...)

Cellist Natalie Clein. Photograph: Neda Navaee
Irish National Opera goes for the big time; Gavin Bryars performs at his own birthday party

SATURDAY 24  AIDA Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin 7.30pm €15, €36, €51, €66, €86 bordgaisenergytheatre.ie; also Tues, Thurs, Sat, Dec 1st Iri(...)

President Michael D Higgins at the beginning of the presidential inauguration ceremony at Dublin Castle on Sunday. Photograph: Maxwells
Miriam Lord: Michael D reinstalled with due warmth and ceremony

A happy event. A bit like fitting the nation with replacement windows to keep out the draught for another seven years. On this occasion, all done und(...)

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