Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights
Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’
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
The magic of Monteverdi and what he means to us
Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan
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
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
Schubert dip and Caesar salad: Classical and opera treats this week
Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces programme for 2017
A focus on Schubert and Stephen Rea performing the work of Oscar Wilde are the main highlights, though the festival features few women in main performing roles
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
A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint
Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering
Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival
The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City
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