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Radio: Liveline guest host adoitly covers Dáil speaking-time fiasco as political divisions are laid bare on Drivetime
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Irish Chamber Orchestra: Deep, detailed performances in a setting that brings out the best in Vaughan Williams’s fantasia
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: The programme features Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Errollyn Wallen’s Dances for Orchestra
Flight: A strong cast grips your attention in Jonathan Dove’s airport-set comic opera
Inspired by same true story as Steven Spielberg’s film, The Terminal
Chamber Choir Ireland: Amhráin na Naomh – An unusually strained performance by an accomplished ensemble
The big piece of the evening, Eoghan Desmond’s Amra Choluim Chille, is a curate’s egg of a work
Eoghan Desmond: ‘I struggle to write in a vacuum – I draw inspiration from what I’m working on as a singer’
The upcoming premiere of the composer’s new piece, Amra Choluim Chille, may well be the largest-scale setting of a text in Irish
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh reinvents Ireland’s biggest songs
The Kerry singer’s new record melds traditional songs and orchestral arrangements
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Irish Chamber Orchestra: Róisín Reimagined – Surprises from the past
A revelatory collection and a high-water mark for a singer with a fathoms-deep voice
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021 gives two fingers to adversity with a striking line-up
Ranging from opera to a skatepark installation, the programme marks an extraordinary balancing act
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
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
‘I’m really a bit of a home bird,’ despite 30 years of touring
Wild Geese: Tenor Paul McNamara lives in Berlin and has performed all over Europe
The best Irish and international albums of 2020
The year of the pandemic produced outstanding, thoughtful music across all forms
‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey
Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture
Kilkenny festival to present mixture of virtual and live events
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
Cash-strapped National Concert Hall told to reflect on ‘music tastes’
Principal venue for classical concerts in Republic records a loss in excess of €41,000
Climate action may offer a boon for Irish musicians
A reduction in international visits could change the face of classical music in Ireland
How a chamber orchestra made Irish musical history
A new book charts the path of an Irish orchestra that would traverse three continents
Gig of the Week: Féile ’19 at Semple Stadium
Horslips, Sinéad O’Connor, and hot tubs await punters making the Trip to Tipp
Kevin Thornton curates festival food area for Féile
Small, artisan food vendors to showcase Irish produce at Semple Stadium
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019: Rough Magic does Shakespeare, Nathalie Stutzmann does Bach
Festival unveils programme for this year’s festival, which runs from August 8th to 18th
The Magic Flute review: Riveting music, touching, satisfying performances
Caroline Staunton directs an entertaining, thought-provoking Mozart production for Irish National Opera
What is really behind the Wexford Festival Opera funding standoff?
Michael Dervan: Arts Council is in an almost unprecedented bind over grant for the event
Weekend TV guide: eight of the best shows to watch
Ireland rugby hero Peter O’Mahony and Boyzone on the Late Late, Nicole Kidman joins Graham Norton and Michael Parkinson chats to Ray D’Arcy
The Irish Times view on the death of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: a visionary explorer
Diverse musical collaborations revealed the pianist, composer and educationalist as truly a musical conquistador
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: a man of energy, joie de vivre, vision and charisma
President said pioneering musician, composer and academic 'fearless sense of exploration'
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, acclaimed musician and composer, dies at 67
Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers
‘I remember Gay Byrne one night referring to me simply as ‘bass’ ’
Jazz composer Ronan Guilfoyle reflects on his father, his influences and session work
New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm
Michael Dervan: Against the odds, Defrosted event offered memorable performances
How Bono lost his vox: An ageing rockstar’s big fear
Why are singers’ voices at risk as they age, and what happens if they are lost on stage?
Gender balance not being taken seriously by Irish music organisations
Female composers are grossly underrepresented, but fixing the issue may not be easy
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
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