Wexford Festival Opera: An oversized orchestra too often compromises solo voices

Irish National Opera’s production features superb singing, but a brave effort to modernise the story isn’t a total success

London Mozart Players concert mixes works from the 18th and early 20th centuries

RTÉ NSO chief conductor Jaime Martín opens his reign in style; Katie Bray is Griselda

Dublin Theatre Festival: Ray Scannell’s ambitious musical drama is performed with aplomb but lacks focus

The composer Donnacha Dennehy struggles to convey the horrors of the Great Famine

Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage

Get Bach in Kilkenny and The Hunger in Dublin

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

Marcin Skrzypezyk and Tomasz Wasowicz deny murdering Ludovit Pasztor at filling station

Two truck drivers charged with murder of Ludovit Pasztor at petrol station in Co Cork

Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces

Barry McGovern’s solo-show adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Watt is returning to the stage

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

Noel Motherway tells judge he had ‘no equity’ in haul and was trying to pay off a drug debt

Relatives of Cork murder victim speak of relief at Cathal O’Sullivan’s conviction

Walsh chronicles several turbulent decades of progress and setbacks in his solo show

Cathal O’Sullivan denies murdering Nicola Collins (38) at his rented flat in Cork last year

Accused pleads guilty to possessing 14kg of cannabis

Plus: Don’t miss soprano Claudia Boyle’s showstopper in The Tales of Hoffmann

Irish National Opera’s Offenbach showcases the talents of Claudia Boyle and John Molloy

Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the ICO; Claudia Boyle in ‘The Tales of Hoffman’

‘I did not intend to kill her, I intended to set her free,’ says Paul Horgan (27)

The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work

Judge says the accused is guilty of a huge breach of trust of a highly vulnerable child

Victim left wheelchair-bound after attack by man who felt an angel had compelled him to act

‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life

Committed cast struggles with ponderous phrases and some awkward arrangements

Teacher used money to ‘keep show on road’ at Gaelscoil

‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish setting

Bailey says anniversary of French woman’s death casts a cloud over him each Christmas

After a two day trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court the jury reached an unanimous decision

‘I feel ripped open stood naked to the core of my being, reduced to nothing,’ victim says

Bodies of John Palmer and Greg Lonergan recovered from 2014 fire at flat in Co Cork

The last story in The Dubliners is already full of song, but opera proved to be a great way of bringing out the ‘internal arias’ in characters’ heads

A performance of JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor was the real highlight of the arts festival’s first weekend

Man shot former friend in back of head with air rifle over perceived snub at social event

Poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar who lost relatives in Cork disaster will attend event

35-year-old sentenced to 11 years after extradition back to Ireland having fled to Spain