Best seats in the house: Cork Opera House interiors revamp

Eve Kelliher talks to the creative team who raised the curtain on the theatre's new-look spaces 

Cork Opera House CEO Eibhlin Gleeson and EZ Living Interiors director Gavin White. Pictures/interiors: Patrick Hobbart

Is this one of the best people-watching perches in Cork? The foyer, bar and hospitality areas at Cork Opera House are stealing the limelight thanks to a revamp.   

You might have first filed into the theatre as a ballet-loving tot to be dazzled by Swan Lake. Maybe your initial trip was when you were corralled into the auditorium among a throng of teen students to watch the Shakespeare play on the exam curriculum.