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Frederic Wake-Walker’s production for Glyndebourne on Tour adds video and even a new character to Beethoven’s opera

Igor Stravinskys Oedipus Rex is available to stream now thru July 18th. Stravinsky based his opera Oedipus Rex on the ancient Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophocles. Tour members watch it while enjoying an assortment of flaky Greek pastries, Ouzo, and retsina wine. The 1927 opera, Oedipus Rex, is a highly stylized, ritualistic work. In fact, the composer specifically requested that it be staged with minimal movement, which works well with COVID restrictions. Throughout the course of the...

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Updated / Wednesday, 5 May 2021 14:15 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Irish National Operas new, five-part online Friday Opera Explorer series, now running on YouTube and Facebook, features a wide selection of arias from the historic opera repertoire together with five interviews with...

World class artists set to bring joy to Kilkenny hospital and care home residents Mobile Music Machine Covid Care Concerts 2021 is here from next week Reporter: sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie The live ‘Covid Care Concerts’ feature everything from Bach to Beethoven and The Beatles to Abba, as well as traditional Irish music and more in-between );  ); World class artists will bring joy and music to the residents of Kilkenny hospital settings and residential care homes next week as pa...

Updated / Monday, 1 Feb 2021 15:00 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Fergus Sheil of Irish National Opera writes for Culture about their acclaimed 20 Shots of Opera project, which features 20 new compact operas from composers in Ireland. In a year of challenges and upheaval, Irish ...

Seán Hayden in Her Name: ‘simple and affecting’. Photograph: INO I’m so over Zoom… a personal best in the parkrun… cinnamon buns… two metre distance… Not my words, but a demonstration of how opera can mirror the zeitgeist as readily, and sharply, as any art form. Each of these random phrases is from Irish National Opera’s 20 Shots of Opera: short new filmed works by different composers (10 men, 10 women) for one or two singer...

It has been a hectic and stressful year for Michelle Riordan from Cahersiveen as she planned her wedding all the way from Canada, but on New Years Eve, when she walked into the Daniel OConnell Church in Cahersiveen, it was all worth it. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on all our lives, but for those getting married it has been very stressful given the continuous changes in restrictions - and almost up until the final hour, Michelle did not know how many guests would be allowed to atte...

Four year old Emma Sophia Ryan, from Kinsale Co Cork is walking on air following a beautiful performance of the song "Walking in the Air" in the Cork Opera House for their annual Christmas Concert. Emma Sophia was accompanied for the performance by the Orchestra of the Cork Opera House and is the youngest performer ever to be accompanied by the orchestra in the stunning Opera House. Her mother, Mary, originally from Blackrock performs with the orchestra and described it as magical to be part o...

Five things for the weekend: Live music and theatre, as well as a blockbuster film  The final episode of His Dark Materials also drops in a weekend where two Cork theatres have Christmas concerts  Majella Cullagh sings as part of the Cork Opera House Christmas Concert this weekend.  Fri, 18 Dec, 2020 - 10:30 Des O’Driscoll TV: His Dark Materials The seventh and final episode of the second series of the adaptations of the novels of Philip Pullman. It’s been better this time around, thoug...