Maestro Mark Padmore looks Bach at Kilkenny Arts Festival
THE streets are alive with the sound of Mozart in Kilkenny as this year’s arts festival is in the throes of the most extensive Mozartian season ever to take place in Ireland.
Wolfgang doesn’t hog the whole show, though, and the classical wunderkind gives way to the baroque master JS Bach in several programmes. Aficionados of great voices will be making a beeline for St Canice’s Cathedral when the English tenor Mark Padmore joins the resident ensemble Camerata Kilkenny for a rare night of arias, cantatas and instrumental works.
