Theatre: Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Gemma Ní Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola and Sarah Richmond star in Daisy Evans’s staging of Vivaldi’s opera
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Salome: A brilliant Sinéad Campbell Wallace leads Irish National Opera’s perfectly judged production
Theatre: Richard Strauss’s tale of sex, violence, incest and necrophilia invites excess, but Bruno Ravella instead deploys restraint – to outstanding effect
The soprano is playing the title part – ‘a beast of a role’ – in Richard Strauss’s 1905 opera, based on the Oscar Wilde play, for Irish National Opera
Me & My Money: Fergus Sheil, artistic director of the Irish National Opera
Puccini’s opera is full of antics – and Orpha Phelan gets them all right, from joyous mayhem to emotional darkness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Production designer Francis O’Connor powerfully realises the updating of the story by Jack Furness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Everything is minimal in Éna Brennan’s new work for Irish National Opera
The violinist and composer worked with director David Pountney and Portuguese visual artist Hugo Canoilas for a 20-minute piece with ‘its own identity, its own world and its own visual experience’
What I Do: Elaine Kelly is a resident conductor with the Irish National Opera
Irish National Opera’s clever, laugh-out-loud production, directed by Polly Graham, relocates the story from 18th-century Naples to an Irish big house in 1914
Polly Graham, who is directing Irish National Opera’s new Cosi Fan Tutte as an antidote to cancel culture, grew up with an opera house in the back garden
Theatre: Paride Cataldo and Niamh O’Sullivan, as Werther and Charlotte, make you hang on their every word as they head for catastrophe
Sophie Motley has set the Goethe story behind Massenet’s 1892 opera in an electrifying rural Ireland
The Belfast native enjoyed a distinguished career which saw him work with the Ulster Orchestra, the NSO, Sadler’s Wells Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival
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