The 47th Saturday review: Nicely paced but vocal projection is overdone
Wexford Festival Opera: Young cast cope well with demands of Andrew Synnott’s music
Putting Irish-language songs centre stage
The Irish Language Art Song Project: its promotion of Irish music is nonpareil
What would Berlioz have made of Disney’s Frozen? Fantastique, probably
After his death, the fanciful French composer, was left out in the cold, but two Dublin concerts celebrating his 150th anniversary shows romanticism is not dead
The best classical music and opera to see this week
An opera on Ireland’s direct provision system and New Ross Piano Festival
The best classical music events this week
Soprano Majella Cullagh comes to Dublin for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s latest concert
Roll Over Beethoven - and Hoffman: this week’s classical highlights
Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the ICO; Claudia Boyle in ‘The Tales of Hoffman’
A back-to-basics opera experience in the best possible way
The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients
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
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Mozart’s The Opera Director from Irish National Opera: the best classical music this week
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s current Essential Classics series ends with a popular selection of Schubert and Beethoven
Wexford Festival Opera: the opening weekend’s reviews
‘Medea’ misses the mark while ‘Risurrezione’ goes down a storm
The colours of music: this week’s classical music highlights
Téada Trio explore synaesthesia, David Brophy conducts SinfoNua, and a choral contrast
Nymphs, shepherds and monsters in a rural Irish bar
‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish setting
The unusual final year of Mozart’s life gets an airing in Kilkenny
The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica
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