Organisation: Opera Theatre Company

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Cork soprano Emma Nash returns to her hometown with opera dance fusion production

Cork soprano Emma Nash returns to her hometown with a production of Orfeo ed Euridice featuring a new dance element, writes Cathy Desmond.

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A fair crack of the whip for risqué Powder Her Face

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Opera Review: Dubliners, Wexford Festival Opera

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James Joyce’s Dublin: Where Dubliners meet the sopranos

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A Question of Taste - Rachel Croash

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Getting a Handel on Kilkenny Arts Festival with Messiah performance

Wayne’s world of theatre looking forward to first opera

Cathy Desmond talks to theatre director Wayne Jordan, ahead of his debut opera, Handel’s ‘Radamisto’, staged by Northern Ireland Opera

Fri, 05 May, 2017

Cathy Desmond's arts highlights of 2016

Our regular arts/ents writers select their personal highlights of the year

Fri, 23 Dec, 2016

Prophet of doom heralds fine opera

Irish baritone Rory Musgrave will be one of the stars of Wexford Festival Opera, writes Cathy Desmond.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2016

Opera Review: Don Giovanni at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

4/5

Wed, 05 Oct, 2016

Roddy Doyle is going from Roy Keane to Don Giovanni with his translation of Mozart’s opera

Roddy Doyle approached his translation of Mozart’s opera in a similar way to his book with the footballer, writes Alan O’Riordan

Thu, 29 Sep, 2016

10 of the best opera and classical events this year

Cathy Desmond rounds up the best opera and classical events coming up in Ireland and further afield

Wed, 17 Aug, 2016

Opera review: La Bohème - O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin

5/5

Wed, 18 May, 2016

Review: Live music - Two Short Operas on Love and Lies, Kilkenny Arts Festival

A fuming husband, a wife with a guilty secret and a jilted lover on the verge of a nervous breakdown are the main protagonists in a pair of short operas on the theme of love and lies presented by Opera Theatre Company at the Watergate Theatre during Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Wed, 12 Aug, 2015

Opera Review: Opera: Rigoletto - O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin

3/5

Sat, 23 May, 2015

Verdi’s comic classic gets a modern revamp

OTC’s touring production of The Elixir of Love is set in a university , writes Jo Kerrigan

Tue, 25 Nov, 2014

Brecht and Weill’s Rise and Fall in the fair city

Brecht-Weill’s rarely-seen opera is a stirring take on consumer excess, writes Padraic Killeen.

Wed, 11 Jun, 2014

Five things to do this week

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Mon, 09 Jun, 2014

Village in tune for singing weekend

A seaside village will be “on song” next weekend as it hosts its first singing workshop weekend.

Mon, 01 Jul, 2013

Scene and Heard

MUSIC NEWS: Shane MacGowan has told the Quietus website that some of his best songs were written by ghosts.

Fri, 30 Nov, 2012

Mozart still the master

Virginia Kerr will perform the famous Requiem at the opening of the Cork International Choral Festival, writes Colette Sheridan

Fri, 27 Apr, 2012

New national opera company to be created

Arts Minister Martin Cullen has announced the establishment of an Irish National Opera.

Mon, 22 Mar, 2010

Arts groups want performance VAT waived

THE Government is damaging the arts sector by hitting non-profit groups with hefty tax bills for performances by international artists in Ireland, arts campaigners said yesterday.

Thu, 30 Nov, 2006

Groups get €1m for promoting Irish culture internationally

CULTURE Ireland yesterday announced €1 million in funding for groups promoting Irish arts and culture abroad.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2006

Concert Hall plans €140m revamp

THE National Concert Hall (NCH) plans to develop three performance halls on its current site at an estimated cost of €140 million, to be completed by 2010 or 2012.

Wed, 04 May, 2005

Irish composers don’t just skim the surface

I WISH to complain about André Jute’s remarks regarding the general state of composition in Ireland in his article headlined ‘Boredom and brilliance’ (Irish Examiner, June 29).

Thu, 01 Jul, 2004