The light and the heavyAs opera singer Barbara Bonney tells it, her career started almost by accident when she more or less had to sing for her supper…Sat Jun 14 2003 - 01:00
Radical revamp of music teaching urgedA radical revamp of music education at local level is called for in a report launched yesterdayThu Jun 12 2003 - 01:00
Opera festival 'innovative' despite cutsThe Tánaiste, Ms Harney, yesterday called Wexford Festival Opera "a fine example of cultural entrepreneurship" as she launched…Thu May 29 2003 - 01:00
ReviewHahn, SF Symphony, NCH, Dublin: John Adams's My Father Knew Charles Ives is a new piece, so new in fact that Thursday's NCH …Sat May 10 2003 - 01:00
Sligo, the perfect setting for subtlety of SciarrinoThe decision to compact the activities of Sligo New Music Festival into a single day was a sensible and rewarding oneTue Apr 01 2003 - 01:00
DIT head enters debate over the future of music educationThe president of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dr Brendan Goldsmith, yesterday described the creation of an Irish Academy…Fri Feb 07 2003 - 00:00
Arts project will not get go-aheadThe project to establish an Irish Academy for the Performing Arts, as announced in 2000 by the then ministers for Education and…Thu Jan 30 2003 - 00:00
Funding crisis causes cancellation of spring operasOpera Ireland has cancelled its spring season at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin because it says there are inadequate promotional…Wed Jan 08 2003 - 00:00
Life of understatementVisual Arts/Aidan Dunne: Reviewed this week: Eithne Jordan at the Rubicon Gallery, Felim Egan at the Kerlin Gallery, Taffina…Fri Dec 06 2002 - 00:00
Kaleidoscopes for the earThe Ultima Festival of contemporary music in Oslo featured a rare opportunity to hear works of spectral music, writes Michael…Mon Oct 21 2002 - 01:00
RTE orchestra not to take up Helix residencyPlans have collapsed for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to become orchestra-in-residence at the new €35 million Helix Centre, which…Tue Sept 17 2002 - 01:00
Meister or Monster?Whether he's an obsession or an object of revulsion, nobody is neutral about Richard WagnerWed Jul 31 2002 - 01:00
Wexford Festival's operas namedNext October's Wexford Festival will include more than 50 performances and for the second year will feature the National Philharmonic…Sat May 18 2002 - 01:00
Joshua Bell (hyperviolin), RTE Cor na nOg, NSO/Gerhard MarksonTuesday's Toy Symphony concert at the NCH was the fruit of collaboration between MIT Media Lab, the Ark cultural centre for children…Fri Apr 12 2002 - 01:00
The Crash Ensemble Project, DublinREVIEWS: The Irish Times reviews The Crash Ensemble , Earthquake Dance and St Matthew's Passion in today's paper.Tue Mar 26 2002 - 00:00
€1.378m for Opera IrelandOpera Ireland, the financially- troubled opera company, has been offered €1,378,700 above and beyond the amount identified in…Wed Mar 20 2002 - 00:00
NSO/Andre de Ridder National Concert HallBelfast composer Ian Wilson, subject of the latest concert in the National Symphony Orchestra's Horizons series, conducted by…Thu Mar 14 2002 - 00:00
Canzona, Orchestra of Saint Cecilia/Bla naid Murphy St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, DublinThe penultimate instalment of this year's offerings in the Orchestra of St Cecilia's marathon traversal of Bach's church cantatas…Tue Mar 05 2002 - 00:00
A concerted effortThe recent festival of music by the Second Viennese School had its moments, writes Michael DervanTue Feb 19 2002 - 00:00
Michael Collins (clarinet), Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra/Jβnos RollaChamber Symphony Op 110a - Shostakovich/BarshaiFri Dec 14 2001 - 00:00
Marieke Schneemann (flute), Bart Schneemann (oboe), Ulster Orchestra/George BenjaminL'Ascension - MessiaenThu Dec 13 2001 - 00:00
Finghin Collins (piano), Orchestra of St Cecilia/Howard ShelleySymphony No 1 - SchubertFri Nov 23 2001 - 00:00
Giulio CesareIn all likelihood the most memorable aspect of Opera Ireland's winter season was always likely to have been the mere fact of …Tue Nov 20 2001 - 00:00
Carlos Bonell (guitar), NSO/Proinns∅as ╙ DuinnCapriccio espagnol - Rimsky-KorsakovMon Nov 19 2001 - 00:00
Don CarloOpera Ireland's artistic director Dieter Kaegi has in a remarkably short space of time, since the landmark SalomΘ of 1999, transformed…Mon Nov 19 2001 - 00:00
Kathryn Stott, Noriko Ogawa (pianos) Cl∅ona Doris (harp)The sharpness of the piano's percussive attack creates treacherous problems for piano duosMon Nov 12 2001 - 00:00
Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)Sonata in A minor, Op 23 - BeethovenMon Nov 12 2001 - 00:00
Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin), NSO/Alexander AnissimovHungarian Dances 1,10, 6 & 5 - BrahmsMon Nov 12 2001 - 00:00
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) Thomas Allen (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)Saturday's classical concerts at the Belfast Festival were both vocal recitals. Well, not quiteTue Nov 06 2001 - 00:00
A new life in BaroqueAs an opera conductor, RenΘ Jacobs knows his profession from both sidesTue Nov 06 2001 - 00:00
Kyoko Takezawa (violin), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Sapporo SO/Tadaaki OtakaStar Isle - TakemitsuWed Oct 31 2001 - 00:00
Louise Winter (mezzo soprano), Julius Drake (piano)First impressions of mezzo soprano Louise Winter at Saturday morning's opening Coffee Concert of the Belfast Festival were of…Tue Oct 30 2001 - 00:00
First version of Beethoven's only opera retains fascinationThere's no doubting the wisdom of Beethoven's revisions to his only opera, a work that we know in its final incarnation as Fidelio…Mon Oct 29 2001 - 00:00
La BohΦme at Belfast FestivalWelsh National Opera's La BohΦme, at the Grand Opera House in Belfast for performances on Tuesday and Thursday, has a well-worn…Fri Oct 26 2001 - 01:00
Theme of the redemptive power of music pursued with some vigourDvorak's "Jakob∅n" ("The Jacobin"), the second opera in the Wexford Festival's 50th anniversary programme, continues with strength…Mon Oct 22 2001 - 01:00
SaphoJules Massenet's "Sapho", which opened at the Wexford Festival on Saturday, has a plot that is intriguingly similar to that of…Mon Oct 22 2001 - 01:00
Arias are in the air at the opening of Wexford Festival OperaThese days, the German composer Friedrich von Flotow (1812-83) is remembered for a single work, the opera MarthaSat Oct 20 2001 - 01:00
The education of an artistThe Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko is now such a well-known presence throughout the musical world that it would be easy to…Mon Oct 08 2001 - 01:00
Lars Vogt (piano), Detroit SO/Leif SegerstamThe Rosa Parks Boulevard movement from Michael Daugherty's Motor City Triptych was given its Irish premiΦre by the Detroit Symphony…Mon Oct 08 2001 - 01:00
Other revLa BohΦmeiewsMichael Hunt's Co-Opera has set out to service the middle ground of scaled-down popular opera on tourThu Sept 27 2001 - 01:00
