Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda: An opera with a troubled history returns
Irish National Opera’s production is first full staging with chorus, orchestra in Ireland
Elsewhere: Agitprop opera combines the serious and the comic
Michael Gallen’s polyglot minimalist music captures energy of historic Monaghan strike
Hansel and Gretel: Flamboyance, playfulness and imagination in INO’s take on Humperdinck
Opera review: Some signals get crossed, but this production aimed both at adults and at children is a really worthwhile venture
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Hansel and Gretal the opera, work by women composers and celebrating Beethoven
The best classical music events this week
Christmas concerts in various venues and the Ficino Quartet at the National Concert Hall
The best classical music and opera to see this week
An opera on Ireland’s direct provision system and New Ross Piano Festival
Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July
Irish National Opera season to also feature new opera set in direct provision
Three of the best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny
Britten’s opera stumbles from the small screen to the live stage
‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life
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