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

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 ...

Irish National Opera’s new production of Bellini’s Norma at the Gaiety Theatre showcases exceptional vocal performances and a ...

When nine musicians constitute the orchestra for an opera production originally planned for a full orchestral component, and it works seamlessly, you know you’ve got something good. That’s the case ...

Irish National Opera seems to have an infallible instinct for casting. Admittedly it has a seemingly inexhaustible well of international Irish singers to draw upon. Mezzo Paula Murrihy’s world-class ...

Irish National Opera are determined to entertain you in this boisterous and delightful production of Donizetti’s 1832 comic romance. It is libidinous, bawdy and brash, with great attention to detail, ...

The curtain lifts on a scrap-metal rampart, atop which sits a lookout post, a weak searchlight sweeping the dark. In Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 original, the chorus of soldiers we meet are warlike ...

State Opera South Australia’s production of Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, co-produced with the West Australian Opera and the Irish National Opera, heralds a new globalised collaboration. It is a ...