John F Larchet’s Complete Songs and Airs: Musical comfort food
Review: Irish composer’s soft-edged songs are perfect for nostalgic reconnection
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 week’s best classical and opera: Griselda to ConTempo Quartet
London Mozart Players concert mixes works from the 18th and early 20th centuries
The best classical music and opera to see this week
RTÉ NSO chief conductor Jaime Martín opens his reign in style; Katie Bray is Griselda
Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in July
Irish National Opera season to also feature new opera set in direct provision
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
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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
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
A series on great symphonies searches for meaning in music
In the first Great Symphonies Close Up concert, Charles Hazlewood explores Dvorák and shows a flair for the apt metaphor
Der Vampyr’s use of space has more bite than Mahagonny’s
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