The Curing Line review: Five-star reminder of why we go to the theatre, or why we go out at all
Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’
Amy Ní Fhearraigh
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The Bartered Bride review: INO’s cleverly compact opera is anchored in an infectious humour
Irish National Opera’s touring production updates the action in Smetana’s opera to Big Tom’s Ireland of the 1970s
I Fall Down, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is joyful, considered and very funny
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gina Moxley’s ‘restoration comedy’ frankly contemplates women’s erasure in the official history of art
Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda: An opera with a troubled history returns
Irish National Opera’s production is first full staging with chorus, orchestra in Ireland
Elsewhere: Agitprop opera combines the serious and the comic
Michael Gallen’s polyglot minimalist music captures energy of historic Monaghan strike
Hansel and Gretel: Flamboyance, playfulness and imagination in INO’s take on Humperdinck
Opera review: Some signals get crossed, but this production aimed both at adults and at children is a really worthwhile venture
Three classical concerts to see this week
Hansel and Gretal the opera, work by women composers and celebrating Beethoven
The best classical music events this week
Christmas concerts in various venues and the Ficino Quartet at the National Concert Hall
The best classical music and opera to see this week
An opera on Ireland’s direct provision system and New Ross Piano Festival
Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July
Irish National Opera season to also feature new opera set in direct provision
Three of the best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny
Britten’s opera stumbles from the small screen to the live stage
‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life
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