Bellini's most consistently inspired opera, director Orpha Phelan tells us, has been set on a pedestal. Well, a pedestal would have been good for the titular Druid high priestess to deliver her ...

Salome Jicia surmounts every vocal challenge of the role. She is well matched with Mario Chang, William Guanbo Su and Siobhan ...

Opera on Tap will host “A Night of Irish Vaudeville" at the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) in NYC on Wednesday, September 25. The special event will bring together Irish and American music ...

But in Phelan's conception, Norma is very much the boss, a Boudica or Jeanne d'Arc, and certainly no mere spiritual ...

Irish National Opera's new production of Donizetti's magnificently stirring opera Maria Stuarda is the company's first ever production of a work by one of opera's most prolific and popular composers - ...

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A libertine who deserves punishment makes a good/bad start when a male director decides he really has tried to rape Donna ...

Song may penetrate its culture, yet Ireland has had a curious attachment to opera. James Joyce, for instance, was obsessed with it, whereas Samuel Beckett only agreed to write an enigmatic ...

Inside the Alberta Arts District bar that bears his name, Tom O' Leary embodies the beaming spirit of this exceedingly family-friendly Irish pub. He greets customers, helps pull drink orders and, with ...

The teams behind Cork Opera House’s The Sound of Music and Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s Oklahoma! reveal how major ...