SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, BROADCASTS, AND THEATRE
United Kingdom Sam Perkin, Linda Caitlin Smith, Andrew Synnott, Gavin Bryars: Esposito Quartet (Mia Cooper, Anna Cashell [violins], Joachim Roewer [viola], William Butt [cello]), Silvija Ščerbavičlūtė (Flute), Juliet Fraser (Soprano). St Nicholas Church, Dundalk, 17.6.2022. (RB)
The 2022 Louth Contemporary Music Festival Every year, the Louth Contemporary Music Society runs a mid-summer Festival in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland which is dedicated to contemporary Classical music. The Festival returns to in-person performances this year on 17 and 18 June, after a 3-year gap and an online iteration last year. The … Read more
United States Brett Dean, Hamlet: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Nicholas Carter (conductor), Broadcast Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to the Dundonald Omniplex, Belfast, 4.6.2022. (RB)
United Kingdom Various: Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble (David McCann [cello], Daniel Browell [piano], Aisling Agnew [flute], William Curran [clarinet], Keith Pascoe [violin]) / Sinead Hayes (conductor). Harty Room, Queens University, Belfast 20.5.2022. (RB)
Contemporary music composer and founder of the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, Greg Caffrey, interviewed by Robert Beattie Northern Irish composer, Greg Caffrey, has won a number of awards for his compositions including First Prize at the Concorso, Counterpoint, Italy in May 2012, the Taukay Edizioni Musicali International Composition Prize in 2012 and the Musica Domani International … Read more
United Kingdom Sondheim, Into the Woods: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera / Peter Mitchell (conductor). Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 9.2.2022. (RB)
Ireland Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Irish National Opera / Fergus Sheil (conductor). Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 13.11.2021. (RB)
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera [3] – Goldmark, Ein Wintermärchen (concert performance): Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: Andrew Synnott) and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Marcus Bosch (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 21.10.2021. (RB)
