Kim Sheehan

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The Magic Flute: Nick Pritchard as Tamino and Anna Devin as Pamina in Irish National Opera’s new production. Photograph: Pat Redmond
The Magic Flute review: Riveting music, touching, satisfying performances
  • Music
  • May 20, 2019, 14:08

The Magic Flute National Opera House, Wexford ★★★★☆ With the lights dimmed but the curtain yet to rise on the opening night of Irish National Opera’s(...)

The Magic Flute is at the National Opera House in Wexford on Friday
A magic night of Mozart: This week’s classical music highlights

Wednesday 15 Camerata Ireland/Barry Douglas NCH, Dublin 8pm €35/€30/€25/€19.50 nch.ie This National Concert Hall appearance by Camerata Ireland is v(...)

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(...)

The Nightingale and the Rose: Kim Sheehan as Nightingale with the rest of the opera’s cast. Photograph: Jed Niezgoda
The Nightingale and the Rose review: An opera that rescues Oscar Wilde from whimsy
  • Music
  • October 15, 2018, 10:10

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE The Everyman, Cork ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The technical virtuosity enlivening this world premiere of John O’Brien’s operatic version (...)

Pere Faura in Stiptease. Photograph: Rafael Gavalle
Dublin Dance Festival: Striptease, Extraterrestrial Events, Deep Dish and Displacement
  • Stage
  • May 29, 2017, 14:00

The concluding days of this year’s Dublin Dance Festival brought into focus themes that had peeked through earlier performances: in a world of where t(...)

Mahan Esfahani, who was born in Tehran in 1984, makes music like someone who has an old head on young shoulders. Photograph: Marco Borggreve
A bumpy journey through Bach masterpieces at Kilkenny Arts Festival

Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Eternal Harmony: The Music of JS Bach got off to a sticky start on Friday. It was a clammy day, and even damper in the int(...)

The Elixir of Love is indicative of the scale of production the OTC would liketo do more of
Labour of love sees Opera Theatre Company back on the road again

In the 1980s, the Arts Council decided that Ireland needed to move beyond the kind of opera tours with piano that had been offered by Irish Nationa(...)

Owen Gilhooly (Papageno) and Chloe Morgan (Papagena) in The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute in a circus makes for a frustrating experience in Lismore

Since its inception in 2010, the Lismore Music Festival has performed in the stable yard of Lismore Castle. A three-sided marquee has covered the audi(...)

Composer Igor Stravinsky (right) and impresario Sergei Diaghilev in Seville during their Ballets Russes collaboration. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A spring break with tradition that’s now a musical rite of passage

There’s a scene in Arthur Penn’s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, where the two bank-robbers fruitlessly try to make out on a bed. Lots of rustling sheets,(...)