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Celebrations are in full swing in Ballina to mark the bicentenary of composer William Vincent Wallace who has been described as the rock star of his day with many compositions to his name, including the 1850s smash hits ‘Maritana’ and ‘Lurline’.

Brigit’s Garden glittered with fairy dust last Sunday as the Fairy Queen stopped by to sprinkle late summer magic over the beautiful Celtic-themed gardens in Roscahill. A record turn-out of young elves and fairies joined her for a special day of fairy fun.

WAGNER’S EPIC Ring Cycle will be broadcast to The Eye Cinema, live via satellite, from The Metropolitan Opera, New York, during the first week of July.

PLACIDO DOMINGO, Danielle de Niese, Lisette Oropesa, and Joyce DiDonato will star in The Enchanted Island, which will be screened at The Eye Cinema in Wellpark this weekend.

THE 2011-2012 season at The Metropolitan Opera in New York will be transmitted live via satellite to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

Barnstorm Theatre Company presents A Murder of Crows at The Watergate Theatre — a gothic tale of two children’s journey from abandonment and fear to ultimate survival.

Four Kilkenny actresses will play opposite members of Washington DC-based Keegan Theatre Company in Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, The Crucible, in the Watergate Theatre.

ARTHUR MILLER’S classic parable of mass hysteria, The Crucible, will be presented by the Keegan Theatre Company from Washington DC at the Town Hall Theatre this month.

GIUSEPPE VERDI’s Il Trovatore will be broadcast live from The Metropolitan Theatre in New York directly to The Eye Cinema this Saturday at 6pm.

On opening night of the 2008-09 New York Metropolitan Opera season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss's wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself in Strauss’ Capriccio, Matthew Polenzani and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts.