Northern Ireland Opera has announced Principal Cast and Creatives in Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece Eugene Onégin this September in Belfast. Based on Alexander Pushkin's classic novel in verse, ...

The latest reshaping of opera companies, this time in Northern Ireland, fuels the transformation of this art form here FOR A SMALL country with a limited supply of opera performances, Ireland has a ...

Northern Ireland Opera announces today the Principal cast and creatives for their magnificent new production of Tosca, Puccini’s intense political thriller. This iconic tale of murder, mystery and ...

WHEN baritone Brendan Collins dons his costume for Northern Ireland Opera's upcoming production of Tosca, he says that will be the moment he truly becomes "the villain of all villains". He has been ...

GRAND Opera these days is more about costs and budgets than exceptional artistic adventure. But, occasionally, one can be surprised. Opera Ireland has been, for instance, on an operatic adventure ...

MUSIC GUS SMITH AS OPERA IRELAND enters another unusual week, with concert performances of Bellini's Norma instead of a full-scale production, chief executive David Collopy says the worst of the ...

One of Northern Ireland’s champions of opera has said he is “completely overwhelmed” after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours. Roy Bailie, ...

Irish baritone Rory Musgrave will be one of the stars of Wexford Festival Opera, writes Cathy Desmond. Fledgling opera singers are travelling from all over the world to ...

Since arriving in Belfast to take charge of Northern Ireland Opera, Cameron Menzies has set out his stall to create ambitious, acclaimed productions in challenging circumstances. George Hall meets the ...

Sir, – Finn McRedmond writes “opera attendance is plummeting, its core audience slowly dying, and it’s much the same for ballet and classical music too” (“Timothée Chalamet is right: no one cares ...