Irish National Opera

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’

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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

Richard Strauss’ work is challenging for first-timers, but chances are they will appreciate opera after seeing this

Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue

Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child

Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days

Performance combining opera, poetry and mental health launches with First Fortnight

Staging of Irish National Opera work based on short stories by Melatu Uchenna Okorie in medieval crypt was inspired