Jonathan Miller, writer and director, dies aged 85

Polymath was also a doctor and a member of the Beyond the Fringe comedy team

Opera funding seems arbitrary and unaccountable

Opera has been particularly badly treated over the past 10 years and the latest reforms offer little hope

Michael Dervan’s 2015: Lucky in our promoters who go with the gut

We are lucky to have a number of Irish promoters whose taste and empathy for the audience’s experience set them apart

Agrippina: Scheming, betrayal and cleavage make for a great evening | Opera review

Handel’s first great opera is a comic piece about a serious subject

John Buckley’s enduring boyish enthusiasm for scintillating sounds

The composer compiles a classic Horizons programme at the NCH; and NI Opera bares all, with mixed results

Review: The Magic Flute

The great moments fly past in this assured production

Review: Verdi’s Macbeth

L’Elisir d’amore

This update, which drags Donizetti into a college classroom, is a real tour de force

Stirring rendition of Enescu’s ‘Octet’

The RTÉ Vanbrugh and Jupiter String Quartets produced a blitz of energy