🎹✨ Frasier Hickland, pianist and répétiteur, is a recipient of the BVOF Bursary 2024, which awards €5,000 towards his studies. He tells us how this award will impact his development. 🎥 Gansee Films Frasier Hickland

This October, WexfordFestivalOpera and RTÉ once again join forces to bring a taste of the magic of Wexford Festival Opera to audiences at home and abroad: rte.ie/culture/2024/1…

Dear friends and followers, SligoBaroqueFestival is eligible for this funding raffle-we’d be so grateful if you’d nominate us, every vote counts and entries close this Friday! culture.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=2…

#Competition 👉Be in with a chance to join us at this year's festival. Full details of how to enter this great competition via @Theglossmag 👇

🎭🎶🌟 Mezzo-soprano Anna-Helena Maclachlan is a recipient of the #BVOF Bursary 2024, which awards €5,000 towards her studies. She tells us about her performances with the festival to date, and how this award will help support her artistic development. 🎥 @PluralVideo

Toi toi toi! Wexford Festival Opera opens tonight 🎊🍾✨ #opera #Ireland

Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Thanks so much, friends! Let the fun begin!

The 73rd WexfordFestivalOpera opens tonight! Wishing all those who built it, continue to nurture it and come to experience it, a very wonderful Festival! Wexford Abú! 16 days/70 events - kicking off with a spectacular fireworks display tonight at 7.15pm. wexfordopera.com

🎭 Where #Samhain meets #Shakespeare! Last season, the witches of #Macbeth emerged from #Lismore Castle Gardens as if in their own #BirnamWood. 🏰🌿 ✨ Big announcements on #BVOF2025 are just around the corner! 📅 Save the dates: May 26 - June 2, 2025. 🌲📷 John Kelly 🎃🎭

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🎭 Where #Samhain meets #Shakespeare: the witches of #Macbeth emerged from Lismore Castle Gardens last year, turning the historic grounds into their own #BirnamWood. 🏰 🎶 ✨Mark your calendars for #BVOF2025 📅 May 26 - June 2 📷John Kelly #BVOF #Ireland

✨ The 73rd Wexford Festival Opera came to a glorious close last Saturday night after 16 incredible days and nights. A very special thank you to everyone who joined us.

Can’t wait to be back in Lismore this summer 🧡

🎄Ina Boyle at Advent Day 7! 🎄 🎁Who was Ina Boyle? Open today's door to learn about the life and times of one of Ireland's greatest composers! inaboyle.org/ina-boyle-adve… 🎄#InaAdvent #IrishMusic #IrishComposers #FemaleComposers #IrishCulture #IrishHeritage #Christmas #Advent

It may be windy outside but we’ll all be toasty warm and enjoying gorgeous music from 8pm tonight! Looking forward to seeing you all there.🎄🎶🎹 #OCI #BeyondtheCarol #Carlingford #HeritageCentre #Christmas2024 #Christmas #ClassicalMusic #carols

🌟 Priority Booking Now Open for Friends of BVOF 🎶 🎼 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 🗓 28, 30, 31 May & 1 June | Lismore Castle 🎼 Dido and Aeneas 🗓 27 & 29 May | St Carthage’s Cathedral 2025 Concerts🎵 When Birds Do Sing. Baroque Hits 🎟 blackwatervalleyopera.ie #BVOF2025 🎭

The Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition 2025 🎉 A big Congratulations to all the singers in the final last night 👏 The night was made even more special with Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina joining us in the National Concert Hall🎶

It’s finally #OpeningNight for our brand-new #INOFledermaus! 🦇🥂 Thrilled to take the stage at Siamsa Tíre! If you're in the audience, let us know your thoughts! 🥳 Huge thanks to The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon our INO Members, partners & donors for making our work possible! 📸 Ros Kavanagh

Culture That Made Me: Music maestro David Brophy picks his touchstones, including Dire Straits, BB King and Enda Walsh among his selections: irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts… Irish Examiner Arts & Culture Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Irish Chamber Orchestra