Artiste: Imelda Drumm

Bruno Ravella's production features excellent singing from its principals in Dublin, but it is Sinéad Campbell-Wallace who shines as the eponymous heroine.

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Surrealist and convincing: William Tell at Irish National Opera

Máire Flavin (Mathilde) and Chorus © Patrick Redmond

Andrew Larkin, 08 nov.

Chavaz's post-modern mythological approach to Rossini's neglected opera Guillaume Tell pays off with some glorious singing from the principals and the INO Chorus.

****1

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An Aida that strips away the Egyptian iconography

Pia Maltri, 24 nov.

Michael Barker-Caven sets Aida in a 21st-century war zone in the Middle-East, allowing the audience to focus on the human drama.

*****

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The Big Bang: a starry launch for Irish National Opera

Pia Maltri, 09 janv.

The biggest stigma associated with opera in Ireland is not that it is an elitist art form, but that it is not “Irish”, and that it doesn’t belong to Irish culture, more of a recent import, like pasta, or avocado.

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Eithne makes a Dublin comeback

Andrew Larkin, 14 oct.

Based on Irish mythology, Opera Theatre Company deiver a compelling concert performance of an exceedingly rare Irish opera Eithne

****1

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Buribayev and the NSO give a passionate Mahler 3

Andrew Larkin, 29 avril

A life-affirming account of Mahler Symphony no.3 with strong input from mezzo Imelda Drumm, the Ladies of the RTE Philharmonic Choir and Cór na nÓg.

****1

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