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World class opera returns to Castlebar direct from New York. Commencing a glittering season of live streamed opera coming direct from the stage of the world famous Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Linenhall Arts Centre on Saturday, October 5 at 5.55pm is acclaimed English director Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin, heralding a season of wonderful Saturday night operas running into spring 2014: Tosca (Puccini); The Nose (Shostakovich); Falstaff (Verdi); Rusalka (Dvoák); Prince Igor (Borodin); Werther (Massenet); La Bohème (Puccini); Così Fan Tutte (Mozart); and last but not least La Cenerentola (Rossini).

Choir fundraiser for Louisburgh Order of Malta tonight

Mullingar Student Players will be celebrating 10 years in existence with a production of Miss Saigon which will run in Mullingar Arts Centre from April 2-6.

The Masquerade Ball is back for year two to allow you the chance to live out a fairytale evening of Venetian inspiration while raising much needed funds for the Irish Cancer Society. It will take place on Friday February 15 2013 in the wonderful surroundings of Breaffy House Resort Events Arena, Castlebar.

OPERA THEATRE Company, Ireland’s national opera company, comes to Galway next week with a sparkling new production of Mozart’s much-loved Così Fan Tutte.

RICHARD HALTON, who performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of The Opera in London’s West End for six years, is coming to Galway.

Direct from the Met in HD for your delectation: as part of its spring opera series, the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar presents Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, live in HD direct from The Met in New York on Saturday, January 19 at 5.55pm. Stunning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

Music-lovers in the Midlands can enjoy the Viennese Strauss Gala experience without having to go any further than the Mullingar Arts Centre this January 20.

VERDI’S AIDA and the Bolshoi’s production of The Nutcracker will be screened live from The Met in New York to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this month.

World class opera is coming to town, direct from New York to Castlebar. Verdi’s Aida opens a glittering season of live streamed opera coming direct from the stage of the world famous Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar: live, as it happens, and in high definition. The Met’s lavish production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama, to be screened on Saturday December 15 at 5.55pm, heralds a season of wonderful Saturday night operas that continues into April 2013 with a programme comprising Les Troyens (Berlioz), Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), Rigoletto (Verdi), Parsifal (Wagner), Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai), and Giulio Cesare (Handel).