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THE MERRY Widow, the much loved Franz Lehár opera, first staged in 1905, is enjoying a new production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, which Galway audiences can see.

Cois Cladaigh are holding their Christmas concert, ‘STARS’, this Saturday  December 13 at 8pm in the St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway.

HANDEL’S MASTERPIECE and one of the great works of classical and Christian music, Messiah, will be performed in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Sunday December 7 at 6.30pm.

THE BARBER Of Seville, one of opera’s best known and loved works, will be broadcast live from The Met in New York to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 6pm.

A PERFORMER of “tremendous assurance and power” whose playing has “depth, expressivity, charisma and perfection” will play Galway next week.

The winners of this year’s All-Island Schools Choir Competition, Moate Community School, will be taking part in the annual Samaritan Christmas Concert.

The Samaritans 23rd annual Christmas festival concert will be held in the Franciscan Friary Church, Athlone on Thursday December 11 at 8pm.

The soaring and iconic ‘Hallelujah’ chorus of Handel’s Messiah is rumoured to have moved King George II so much at the London premiere of the work in March 1743, that the monarch jumped to his feet in admiration, compelling the rest of the audience to follow suit.

THE NEW York Metropolitan Opera’s production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro is being broadcast to The Eye Cinema this weekend.

GIUSEPPI VERDI’S operatic version of Shakespeare’s dark drama of murder, violence, and lust for power, Macbeth, will be screened at The Eye.