Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
The best classical music and opera to see this week
Beethoven’s Fidelio and New Music Dublin both come to the National Concert Hall
Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights
Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’
A back-to-basics opera experience in the best possible way
The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients
The magic of Monteverdi and what he means to us
Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan
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
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
Review: The Rape of Lucretia
Irish Youth Opera has begun its mission with a slick, updated version of Britten’s opera
Der Vampyr’s use of space has more bite than Mahagonny’s
Set designers have a crucial influence over the musical experience of an opera – here’s the evidence
The Cunning Little Vixen
A hugely stimulating interpretation of Janacek’s opera, prodigiously imagined by an army of young creative minds
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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