Donnacha Dennehy
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Irish language project commissions 50 songs from composers at home and abroad
- Music
- February 15, 2020, 05:00
Tionscadal na nAmhrán Ealaíne Gaeilge (the Irish Language Art Song Project), devised by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess, commissioned 50 songs in Ir(...)

The best classical music events this week
- Music
- December 7, 2019, 05:00
Sunday 8 Elizabeth Hilliard, Lina Andonovska Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin The Hugh Lane Gallery’s free Sundays at Noon concert has a contemporary cast(...)

La cucina/Adina review: A production so busy it ties itself in knots
- Music
- October 25, 2019, 14:15
LA CUCINA/ADINA O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House ★★★☆☆ The year 1990 is beginning to look like a key turning point for Irish opera. The world p(...)

Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpiece
- Music
- October 25, 2019, 07:00
Expectations upended, preconceptions shattered: that’s the shape of Lankum’s world, and it’s a world of wide horizons and imaginations writ large on T(...)

Four to the floor: This week’s best classical music gigs
- Music
- September 14, 2019, 05:00
Sunday, September 15th Sunday String Quartet Series NCH Kevin Barry Recital Room, Dublin Most of the strands in the National Concert Hall’s new seas(...)

Roger Doyle: Aosdána’s newest Saoi is a champion of Irish composers
- Music
- August 28, 2019, 05:00
Composer Roger Doyle, a member of Aosdána since 1986, has been been awarded the organisation’s highest honour. He was elected a Saoi earlier this year(...)

Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger review – Innovative exploration of the Famine
- Music
- August 23, 2019, 05:00
This “docu-cantata” by Donnacha Dennehy featuring Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson, soprano Katherine Manley, and sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lion(...)

The Hunger review: An opera let down by its musical material
- Music
- August 21, 2019, 13:49
THE HUNGER Abbey Theatre, Dublin ★★☆☆☆ It was the composer Donnacha Dennehy’s discovery of Annals of the Famine in Ireland, a first-hand report by th(...)

The Hunger: A mixed-media opera about the Famine
- Music
- August 17, 2019, 05:00
The sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird is digging a grave on a special earth-filled platform in Wesley House off Dublin’s Leeson Street. Standing near h(...)

The best classical music and opera to see this week
- Music
- August 17, 2019, 05:00
Saturday August 17 Kilkenny Arts Festival kilkennyarts.ie There are two appealing concerts in the closing days of Kilkenny Arts Festival. Satur(...)