Having reached the All-Ireland finals in 2024, Bridge Drama returns to the National Opera House this January with a play it describes as “one of its biggest challenges” to date. Based on the ...

Cork Opera House launched its Strategic Plan 2025–2030 at an event attended by Cork’s Lord Mayor, along with various city dignitaries and stakeholders. The forty-page document outlines the ...

When it came time to rebuild, the father from Superior, Colorado, wanted to make sure his new home was protected against fire — so he chose a design concept called Passive House. In a ...

Almost 30 years ago a young Romanian soprano created a sensation when she debuted as Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata at London’s Royal Opera House. With a thrilling voice and diva looks to match, a ...

But some buildings have managed to stay standing, including a six month-old house designed by architect Greg Chasen. The neighbouring houses in the Palisades were destroyed, and Chasen thinks it was a ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

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But she doesn’t properly hide the body, which surfaces in the river next spring, when the winter ice melts… Claus Guth’s brilliant production – sung in Czech and designed by Michael Levine ...

An Irish wake began when neighborhood women came to the house and washed the body of the deceased. More often than not, the wake was held in the deceased's own home or in that of a close relative.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...