Michelle O'rourke

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Setting up a shot from Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s Dust. Photograph: Kip Carroll
Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera 

“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

National Concert Hall Female Conductor Finale: 12 young conductors gather on Wednesday. Photograph: Mark Stedman
The three best classical concerts in Ireland this week

Sunday, June 24th Paul McNamara Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; noon; free; hughlane.ie The Limerick tenor Paul McNamara, who is based in Germany, where h(...)

Gerald Barry: His “treatment somehow intensifies, if that is imaginable, the topsy-turviness of Lewis Carroll’s imagination”. Photograph: Alan Betson
Musical taste: There’s no accounting for it, especially new stuff

Musical taste is as complex and confounding as the rules of attraction. You can argue about it, but taste is one of those things that people don’t hav(...)

John O’Conor and Veronica McSwiney at the NCH
Classical music review: Two pianos and a cello ensemble

It’s a remarkable fact that John O’Conor and Veronica McSwiney never gave a concert together before last Wednesday. These two Irish pianists have know(...)