‘I sort of vomited up a draft’: Megan Nolan and Amanda Feery on creating an opera for the first time
A Thing I Cannot Name is a collaboration between the two that explores ugly side of desire
‘My father was a dervish ... If you didn’t know them you would have thought they’d taken ecstasy’
Tulca’s debut album is full of sweeping yet intimate music drawn from Irish and Persian traditions
Sound ideas for musical equality, but still no wider vision
The NCH’s female composer commissioning scheme is a small step in the right direction
A conductor in search of the Furtwängler factor
Cristian Macelaru’s in-your-face style frees up the RTÉ NSO, perhaps too much so
Changing of the guard at RTÉ orchestras presents an opportunity
As the principal conductors of the NSO and the CO finish up, the question arises: how best to deal with their succession?
A Yeatsian balancing act between music and words
Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’
Television: Red Rock got off to a rollicking good start
Review: Anyone tuning in to see shaking scenery and ropey acting will have been disappointed
Children’s Christmas show review: A Most Peculiar Wintry Thing
Sniffs and snuffles are welcome at this lively classical concert for kids
The shock of the New Music Dublin
A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme
Radical rule-breaking and back to basics
There is a time for artistic licence – and a time to focus on basics of performing: William Brooks on Yeats, and string quartet masterclasses at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival
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