Celine Byrne
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Wexford opera, virtually: A bittersweet affair in Covid’s shadow
- Music
- October 20, 2020, 01:00
The Festival in the Air ran from October 11th-18th. The original Shakespeare-themed programme has been postponed to next year, and the Festival in the(...)

Wexford Festival Opera goes online in series of free performances
- Stage
- July 16, 2020, 00:00
Wexford Festival Opera is going ahead this year, just not as you knew it before. The Shakespeare-themed programme announced by incoming artistic direc(...)

Daniel O’Donnell: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- March 21, 2020, 05:00
Current favourite book I’m reading a book by Peter Molloy, who lives in Missouri but is from Donegal. He self-published The Branson Butcher, a crime (...)

The show must go online: How venues are keeping the music alive
- Music
- March 18, 2020, 05:00
Never waste a good crisis, the saying goes. And, in the self-isolating conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s a message that the world of music and(...)

The best classical music and opera to see this week
- Music
- September 21, 2019, 05:00
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(...)

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You found 10 bags of cocaine and you go to the police?’
- People
- July 20, 2019, 06:02
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 (...)

Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July
- Stage
- May 20, 2019, 16:00
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(...)

Byrne and Workman soar with intensity in Korngold’s masterpiece
- Music
- April 17, 2019, 05:00
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(...)

The best classical music gigs happening this week
- Music
- April 6, 2019, 05:00
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(...)

Madama Butterfly review: an airbrushed Pinkerton but a triumphant production
- Music
- 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(...)