Tara Erraught is enjoying a blossoming international career. Fresh from her Met debut, she comes home to Ireland to play Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro. Cathy Desmond met the mezzo in Munich

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

I am disciplined about writing. I nearly always have a deadline.

You learn to dance through the pain.