Edna O’Brien, Margaret Atwood show artistic imagination does not abide by aging

Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results

Famed composer and singer will become the first woman to have an opera presented by Wexford Festival Opera

Soprano Majella Cullagh comes to Dublin for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s latest concert

The Irish Composers’ Collective and the RTÉ NSO at the National Concert Hall

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

Irish National Opera’s The Magic Flute. Plus: Verdi’s Requiem and Camerata Ireland

INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore

Deal would create euro zone’s second-largest lender with €1.9 trillion in assets and over 140,000 employees

Frang, one of the nimblest violinists around, takes on a highly athletic Stravinsky work

Classical music highlights for the coming week

Wexford Festival Opera reviews: ‘Leoni’ and ‘Mala Vita’; ‘Dinner at Eight’; and ‘Il Bravo’

Airline issues profit warning as it braces for further industrial unrest in difficult market

Union calls for airline to agree to mediation in its dispute over pay and terms

The Dublin native explains life as head coach do at one of the world’s great opera houses

Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan

100 musicians will lead Women’s March objecting to president’s UK visit

Highly acclaimed German baritone Benjamin Appl will colse the close the Dublin Song Series

The new Irish National Opera is too risk-averse, while Wexford Festival's rare opera is not so rare anymore. And both need to engage with Ireland’s musical diaspora

Launch of new company ‘a golden moment’ and signals commitment to Irish creative talent

A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera

Irish Opera Artists’ Christmas Gala and A Box of Festive Delights

Opera found itself at the centre of a struggle between internationalism and Englishness

Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’

Portugal’s capital is bursting with culture and great places to eat, stay and party – all at bargain prices

The move is intended as a sweetener for global banks moving to Europe

Verdi vows to launch legal action against airline over baggage-handler dispute

The upside-down provision of opera in Ireland neglects works people want to hear most

In the past 10 years, the grant to Wexford has crept up but OTC's has fallen fast. What’s the rationale?

That was the scene internationally, but what would a Dublin music lover have had to choose from?

Veronica French and Neil Collier met on a field trip to collect larvae in Australia

Inflatable capsizes in Turkish waters, killing 13 people, including six children

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride

The original theme lacked grandeur, but such portmanteaus can be a source of creativity

The 17-year-old will represent Ireland in second Eurovision semi-final on Thursday

The Spanish tenor will be in Dublin to sing at a gala concert this month – rain or shine

Booming demand sees US online retailer European headcount soar to 32,000

Trips for classical music lovers around the world

Staff working at warehouses in dispute with online retailer over better pay and conditions

Some 2,000 staff to strike at nine distribution centres in dispute over pay and conditions