Salome Jicia, Sinéad Campbell Wallace, Celine Byrne & Mario Chang Lead Irish National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

The Irish National Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with a darkly comic new opera, “MARS,” a commissioned work from Jennifer Walshe and Mark O’Connell. The work will star sopranos Nina Guo and Jade Phoenix, and mezzo-sopranos Doreen Curran and Sarah Richmond. Performance Dates: July 25–27 & August 7–9, 2025. The company will present “Viva Verdi, Viva Wagner” with Irish soprano Sinéad Campbell Wallace, US {…}

Nov 27, 2024

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

(Photo: Patricio Cassinoni) History has not been kind to Charles Villiers Stanford’s reputation as an opera composer. During his lifetime he wrote nine complete operas, which, apart from his comic opera “Seamus O’Brien,” was met with limited success. Today, they are rarely performed, and none have found their way into the mainstream repertoire. In 2019, the Wexford Festival Opera produced {…}

Aug 25, 2023

Opera Collective Ireland to Present Irish Premiere of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Flight’

(Photo credit: Patrick Browne) Jonathan Dove’s “Flight” will make its Irish premiere this September with Opera Collective Ireland in Dublin, Galway, and Cork. Taking on the role of the real-life inspired story of Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasser who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport Paris for 18 years is Eoin Conway. Ami Hewitt, Roisin Walsh, Christopher Bowen, Anna Brady, {…}

May 4, 2023

OperaUpClose & Manchester Camerata Present New Version of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ on Tour

OperaUpClose and Manchester Camerata will present a new production of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” on a UK tour this summer. English novelist and poet Glyn Maxwell reworked the libretto for Laura Bowler and Robin Wallington’s 8-piece chamber orchestration of Wagner’s classic. Under the stage direction of Lucy Bradley performers, instrumentalists, and singers will all reside on the stage, breaking the {…}

Sep 14, 2020

How Mark Nathan & Carolyn Holt Found Success With Send-A-Song During the COVID-19 Lockdown

It was early March and baritone Mark Nathan was facing a situation that many people around the world would also have to deal with – miss out on an important event due to the lockdown imposed by the global pandemic. In this case, it was his mother’s birthday. He was living in Glasgow with partner and mezzo-soprano Carolyn Holt while {…}

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Salome Jicia, Sinéad Campbell Wallace, Celine Byrne & Mario Chang Lead Irish National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

Opera Collective Ireland to Present Irish Premiere of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Flight’

OperaUpClose & Manchester Camerata Present New Version of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ on Tour

How Mark Nathan & Carolyn Holt Found Success With Send-A-Song During the COVID-19 Lockdown