Siobhan Armstrong
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Richard Thomas and Sharon Carty: This week’s best classical concerts
- Music
- April 27, 2019, 05:00
Sunday, April 28th Sharon Carty, Siobhán Armstrong Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin hughlane.ie Mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is one of those Irish singers wh(...)

Good pairings: The best classical music and opera concerts this week
- Music
- April 20, 2019, 05:00
Friday 26th Tara Erraught, John O’Conor NCH, Dublin It’s a first-time collaboration between Tara Erraught, Ireland’s most successful mezzo-soprano, a(...)

Brahms steals the show at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
- Music
- August 15, 2018, 05:00
The big musical focus of Kilkenny Arts Festival is the chamber music of Brahms. Festival director Eugene Downes has found space for songs, choral musi(...)

Michael Jackson at Lugalla: He asked for ‘the portrait of the freaky-looking man with the frizzy hair’ to be taken down
- Visual Art
- May 26, 2018, 06:00
The first time I visited Anthony Palliser’s Paris home, back in 2007, I found the poets Derek Mahon and John Montague in the Anglo-Belgian painter’s s(...)

Áras an Uachtaráin to open for Culture Night 2016
- Heritage
- August 15, 2016, 13:24
Áras an Uachtaráin will open its doors to the public as part of Culture Night 2016. It was announced on Monday that a raffle will take place to allo(...)

A bit of electrical hum is no skin off Alvin Lucier’s nose
- Music
- June 25, 2014, 01:00
Talking to Alvin Lucier for the interview published on this page last Friday, I asked him whether his piece I Am Sitting in a Room was as straightf(...)

Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Ó Riada Re-imagined Louth Contemporary Music Society
- Music
- December 27, 2013, 00:00
Bold, angular lines intersect this timely reimagining of Seán Ó Riada’s widely admired 1968 mass by Uzbek composer Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, commissioned(...)

An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’
- Music
- May 21, 2013, 02:00
It was in the early 18th century that people seem to have first become concerned about early music. An Academy of Vocal Music was set up in Lon(...)