Richard Strauss

Meredith Monk’s credo is at the heart of John Scott’s dance-based exploration of the physicality of the operatic soprano

Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught appears in La Cenerentola as Angelina

The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan in Wexford; American conductor JoAnn Falletta at NCH

The Grammy award-winning soprano gained worldwide fame for her roles at New York’s Metropolitan Opera

National Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada perform almost flawlessly

The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival returns with two operas this year

Report released shows Dr Richard Strauss sexually assaulted more than 170 athletes

Report finds college leaders knew of abuses at the time

Tara Erraught collaborates with pianist John O’Connor, while Sharon Carty will be accompanied by Siobhán Armstrong

The huge orchestra required for Die tote Stadt made the NCH right for the Irish premiere

Plus Nathalie Stutzmann’s French tribute and Rafael Payare’s final season

Music for Galway programme is full of highlights with promise of new cello festival

RTÉ ConTempo Quartet play in Sligo and Galway. Plus: ‘Banished’ in Kilmainham Gaol

Wexford Festival Opera reviews: ‘Leoni’ and ‘Mala Vita’; ‘Dinner at Eight’; and ‘Il Bravo’

Paul McNamara, Beckett Chamber Music Series and NCH Female Conductor Finale

The 1965 musical was ‘a sugar-coated lie’ with little in common with the real Von Trapps

A pioneer of geriatric medicine in Ireland

As Kubrick’s monolithic movie celebrates 50 years, special effects gurus and film-makers consider its legacy

2012 Dublin International Piano Competition winner Nikolay Khozyainov returns to NCH

Irish Opera Artists’ Christmas Gala and A Box of Festive Delights

It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov

Crash Ensemble celebrate 20 years with special performance and Nathalie Stutzmann leads the RTÉ NSO in Strauss and Mozart

Westport Festival expands from three to six concerts

Irish mezzo soprano Tara Erraught comes to the National Concert Hall

Joyce DiDonato gives a stunning example of the possible shape of things to come

Of all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationally

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s studied take on Mendelssohn and Brahms

Hooker keen to seize opportunity but aware of the competition in Leinster and Ireland

Almost 80 years after his death, Berlin is acknowledging one of its most celebrated sons

Leinster boss Leo Cullen and Les Kiss name otherwise unchanged sides for RDS clash

Backrow adds to injuries in pack ahead of trip to play Bath

Having silenced a clutch of male critics, Erraught showed she has the X factor on stage at the NCH

What better excuse for a symphonic festival than the 150th anniversaries of two Scandinavian composers?

The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual

Gilbert, conductor of the New York orchestra, will step down in 2017 after an innovative eight-season tenure that brought contemporary music to the fore. So, what next?

Leinster coach watched as three of his charges forced off with head injuries during Dragons loss

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

The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?

IRFU statement says international flanker will have further tests to ascertain extent of medical problem

The downside to seeing the tenor’s NCH appearance was that I missed an apparently great Wexford production