The many attractions of William Tell and RossiniDirector Julien Chavaz is relishing the ‘scary’ challenge of bringing the opera to an Irish stage for the first time since 1877Sat Nov 05 2022 - 05:00
Renaud Capuçon: Vivaldi and Chevalier de Saint-George - An intriguing couplingNimble, unaffected, modern-instrument accounts of 18th-century worksFri Nov 04 2022 - 05:00
Alena Baeva: ‘Concert platforms are a place where miracles can happen’Russian violinist discusses her musical journey, the joy of learning and war ahead of performing in DublinMon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
The Selenites review: A persuasive musical focus on magicWexford Festival Opera: Conor Mitchell’s short piece feels like a scene being set for something largerThu Oct 27 2022 - 14:54
Cinderella review: Not quite happy ever afterWexford Festival Opera: Alma Deutscher’s first full-length opera is a fairytale that lacks menace or nuanceThu Oct 27 2022 - 10:22
Wexford Festival Opera 2022: Opening weekend veers from the mundane to the magicalA hot-and-cold La Tempesta, an updated Lalla-Roukh and a star turn by Jennifer Davis in a rare production of Dvorak’s ArmidaMon Oct 24 2022 - 15:44
‘We had to be that much more qualified to be treated as an equal’ In founding the Chineke! Orchestra, Chi-chi Nwanoku set out to fill a void in classical music and succeeded spectacularlyMon Oct 24 2022 - 05:00
Alina Ibragimova: Telemann Fantasias for solo violin – Approach of ‘less is more’ proves highly appealingThe talented Tatar violinist makes the most of the contrasts in Telemann's musicFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
‘People see opera as very glamorous from the outside’Soprano Jennifer Davis on performance hangover, social-media abuse, and creating a phonetic system to learn Dvorak’s Armida for Wexford Festival OperaThu Oct 13 2022 - 05:00
The Kreutzer Project: Building a bridge between Beethoven and JanáčekNew York chamber orchestra The Knights bring together two musical bedfellowsFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Augustin Hadelich: Recuerdos - A musical response to warHomage to Benjamin Britten brings reflective spaciousness and tonal beauty to the concertoFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
The Marmen Quartet: a seamless transitionThe quartet have changed their personnel but the bond is just as strong with the new membersMon Sept 05 2022 - 05:00
Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn review: Musical siblings at their best when slower-pacedIn the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s sympathetic performance, Piano Trio in D minor is the richest work in this collectionFri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
What makes a winner?: ‘A winner is that person who speaks straight to the heart’Dearbhla Collins, artistic administrator of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, reflects on the necessary ingredients for successSat Aug 20 2022 - 05:00
Schubert Unfinished & Great Symphonies: Vivid recordings full of period-instrument colour Belgian conductor René Jacobs approaches the symphonies like an art restorer revealing long-hidden detailFri Aug 19 2022 - 00:00
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Schubert on speed in the Marble CityThe festival’s music programme also featured two Russian landmarksTue Aug 16 2022 - 00:00
Semele review: Hande’s musically rich oratorio lacks clarityIt is, of all things, the representation of Somnus, god of sleep, that brings the evening to a higher levelFri Aug 05 2022 - 12:55
Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet — Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective provide fine advocacyThe piano trio is tighter and more fiery than the others, but oddly unsatisfactoryFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
‘There’s no way of knowing what’s going to happen to musical life, or general life, in Ukraine’Ahead of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s appearance in Dublin, pianist Anna Fedorova talks about what’s happening in her countryThu Jul 28 2022 - 05:00
Michelle O’Rourke and Ficino Ensemble: Folk Songs - Celebration of remarkable voiceEarnest-sounding engagements with folk songFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
HandelFest 2022: Bringing Messiah — and Dublin’s 18th-century music scene — back to life Peter Whelan is keen to celebrate Handel in the city where Messiah was premiered, but also to put him in a wider musical contextThu Jul 14 2022 - 06:00
Gary McCann: Visceral experience of opera about images and music burnt into the memory Designer from Portadown discusses his approach to Puccini’s Tosca in a co-production between Opera Wrocławska and Irish National OperaSat Jul 09 2022 - 06:00
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival’s Covid solutionReview: Bantry seems unlikely to run out of bright ideas while Francis Humphrys is running the showTue Jul 05 2022 - 15:03
‘Total freedom’: Kirkos get experimental in a former hair salon in DublinThe ensemble can take chances in their Prussia Street home, as well as helping others, such as by hosting the premiere of a David Bremner operaSat Jul 02 2022 - 05:00
The Hibernian Muse: Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser – Whelan and his team give it all its worth Album review: Irish Baroque Orchestra continues its exploration of Dublin’s musical history in the baroque eraFri Jul 01 2022 - 12:00
Nothing has changed. Everything has changed: New and old meet to create Louth Contemporary Music FestivalThe world of the arts is going through a time of sometimes cautious but genuinely joyous reunionMon Jun 20 2022 - 19:00
Julius Drake: ‘I do mind the word accompanist. I don’t think it’s fit for purpose’En route to west Cork, he talks about his ‘Damascene moment’ and how chamber music is an equaliserMon Jun 20 2022 - 06:00
Classical album review: César Franck complete orchestral works Four-disc, bicentenary collection showcases glittering piecesFri Jun 17 2022 - 06:00
Orfeo ed Euridice: Gluck under canvasThis year’s Blackwater Valley Opera Festival offering has plenty of energy but falls short on coherenceFri Jun 03 2022 - 14:32
LSO: Stravinsky Ballets - Pleasant rather than visceral listeningSensitive realisation under the guidance of Simon RattleMon May 30 2022 - 16:14
Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda: An opera with a troubled history returnsIrish National Opera’s production is first full staging with chorus, orchestra in IrelandMon May 30 2022 - 05:00
Countertenor Meili Li: ‘It’s not easy as a Chinese person to be accepted’Finding a footing in the world of opera takes grit but this is a singer who likes a challengeWed May 18 2022 - 05:00
Gerald Barry: ‘I’ve had an energy in me that has not had an outlet’The composer on sea bream, symbols, spies, Salome and his new Cello ConcertoTue May 10 2022 - 00:00
Nathan Sherman & Alex Petcu: Totemic – a well-executed debutThe viola and percussion duo mix three specially written works with one 1980s classicFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Irish composers unite for long-delayed Beethoven celebrationAhead of an NCH concert series, artists reflect on how a musical giant shaped themMon May 02 2022 - 05:00
It’s oh so quiet: Exploring the role of silence in musicExperimental composer and guitarist Michael Pisaro-Liu’s 2013 work, asleep, wind, voice, poe gets its Irish premiere this monthSat Apr 30 2022 - 00:00
Ailís Ní Ríain: ‘Words and music are things we do against all better judgment’Composer on the challenges of her latest work and the transformative effect of ZoomWed Apr 27 2022 - 00:00
Rhona Clarke: Sempiternam choral music review – certain gestures a little clichedClarke is fond of graduated spills of soundFri Apr 01 2022 - 00:00
‘I always say the violin is Beyoncé and the viola is Adele’One is the pop singer, the other is the soul singer, says violist Jennifer StummWed Mar 23 2022 - 05:00
Joyce DiDonato: ‘What are you going to contribute to building the world?’Mezzo-soprano on Eden, destruction and balance – and moral duty outside concert hallSat Mar 19 2022 - 05:00
‘I certainly felt that the music and the man were one and the same thing’Choral director Paul Hillier on his concert tribute to late composer Steve MartlandTue Mar 08 2022 - 05:00
‘The challenge for women in music is the lack of institutional support’Participants in Finding a Voice, a festival of music by female composers, have their sayTue Mar 01 2022 - 05:00
Golda Schultz: ‘Back to that conversation between performer and artist’The South African soprano talks about the inspiration behind her upcoming NCH performanceThu Feb 03 2022 - 05:00
Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano – not quite a silk purseChristoph Croisé and Oxana Shevchenko show this limited composer in his best lightFri Jan 21 2022 - 05:00
