Opera review: Worth waiting for, as long-delayed Carmen debuts in Dublin

Irish National Opera returned to full-scale productions with an enjoyable offering of a classic at Bord Gais Energy Theatre

Paula Murrihy (Carmen) in Carmen at Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin. Picture: Ruth Medjber

★★★★☆

Irish National Opera haven’t had a bad pandemic, delivering a host of projects online and in various formats in keeping with the restrictions we’ve been dealing with the last two years. But there was a celebratory mood at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre as full-scale opera returned and the curtain went up on a production of Carmen that was cancelled in March 2020 in what turned out to be the long shadow of Covid.