Donnacha Dennehy: ‘I thought opera was a ridiculous art form’

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride

Hartmann: Symphonies 1-8 Netherlands Radio Orchestras

Opera houses survive, even thrive, despite Boulez’s pessimism

Opera repertoire has broadened since the French composer’s 1967 comments, and ‘The Invader’ continues a fine recent tradition of new opera in Ireland

Mahler/Stein: Symphony No 4