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Andrew Larkin

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  • Britten in the Rain: a Dream that charms in parts but lacks cohesion

    1 week ago | bachtrack.com | Andrew Larkin

    Staging opera outdoors in Ireland is always a gamble. On the opening night of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, the weather did its best to upstage the performers. Yet even a persistent downpour couldn’t fully dampen the spirit of this atmospheric if uneven production of Britten’s fairy-haunted Shakespeare adaptation, set amid the historic grounds of Lismore Castle. Patrick Mason’s direction is a tale of two Elizabethan worlds.

  • A rollicking Wild West Elisir in Dublin that hits all the right notes

    1 week ago | bachtrack.com | Andrew Larkin

    You know you’re in for a comedic romp when a cheeky duo breaks the fourth wall in English before the curtain even rises. Cal McCrystal’s irreverent new production of L’Elisir d’amore for Irish National Opera gallops headlong into the farcical with guns blazing – and the result is a riotously entertaining ride through Donizetti’s effervescent score, reimagined in the dusty climes of the American Wild West.

  • Yukine Kuroki delivers a scintillating Rach-Pag with the NSO in Dublin

    3 weeks ago | bachtrack.com | Andrew Larkin

    On a bright spring evening in Dublin, the National Symphony Orchestra offered a programme that traversed vast emotional and geographical terrain, from the icy stillness of a contemporary Ukrainian symphony to the roiling Nordic waters of Sibelius and the sardonic fireworks of Shostakovich.

  • Charting new waters: The Flying Dutchman brings Wagner back to Ireland

    2 months ago | bachtrack.com | Andrew Larkin

    A fully staged Wagner opera in Ireland is as rare as a phoenix’s feather. The Flying Dutchman, which opened last night, marked a thrilling first for the Irish National Opera, the company’s inaugural venture into the Wagnerian repertoire, co-produced with Garsington Opera. Remarkably, the last Wagner opera staged in Ireland was more than 13 years ago.

  • Ravel at 150: a celebration of colour and rhythm from the NSO

    Mar 8, 2025 | bachtrack.com | Andrew Larkin

    In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, this evening’s concert by the National Symphony Orchestra offered a fitting tribute to the French master, with a programme entirely devoted to his work. While the piano, so central to Ravel’s output, was notably absent from the performance, several of the pieces were orchestrations of earlier piano works, such as the Ma mère l’Oye suite, La Valse and Alborada del gracioso.

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10 Feb 20

A humorous and entertaining *Hansel and Gretel* in Dublin https://t.co/Csc9HJBRUV via @bachtrack

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26 Mar 19

Superlative Celine Byrne makes INO's Butterfly a memorable experience https://t.co/9AxD1xHIFb via @bachtrack