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		<title>Opera Theatre Company: Alcina (Handel)</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/opera-theatre-company-alcina-handel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alcina, opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel [1735], anonymous libretto based on L&#8217;isola d&#8217;Alcina (set by Broschi [1728]), after cantos VI-VII of Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto [1516].  New edition by Clifford Bartlett for Early Music Company, with English libretto translated by Amanda Holden.
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		<title>IMC &#8211; extra screening</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/imc-extra-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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Good news just in of a change to the screening timetable for IMC in Dún Laoghaire (and hopefully the rest of the chain as well): in addition to the lineup I gave on Sept 28, they are also going to include the Bolshoi production of Eugene Onegin, staged last year at the Paris Opèra.  If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=228&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn roundup &#8211; time to be grateful&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/autumn-roundup-time-to-be-grateful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As there&#8217;s no established opera company (or house) in Ireland producing work through the year, we have to make do with the short seasons of Opera Ireland, and the valiant work of touring companies, leading to months where very little happens and then times, like the next month or so, when there&#8217;s almost too much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=215&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera on screen in Ireland: 2009-10</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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A new year, and the ongoing experimental engagement between Irish cinemas and opera takes a new twist, as a new film distributor adds to the mix while different screens shift allegiance or come new to the fray.  Saturday October 10 sees the start of the new season of The Met Opera: Live in HD, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=207&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always an amusing diversion, the range and quality of opera blogs (including this one) vary considerably.  I&#8217;ve listed a few of the major ones down a bit on the left hand column.  New ones of note that have come onstream in the last few months include Opera North, and also Justin Murphy&#8217;s blog for Wexford [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=202&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Glasthule Opera</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/report-glasthule-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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The Glasthule Opera shows in Dún Laoghaire&#8217;s Pavilion Theatre last week were as good as you could expect them to be, given the fact that the venue is far from ideal, the lack of funding, and consequent limits on rehearsal time.  Marketed as a professional season and reviewed as such (you can see Michael Dervan&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=189&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera Theatre Company: Acis &amp; Galatea (Handel)</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/opera-theatre-company-acis-galatea-handel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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Acis and Galatea, a masque by George Frideric Handel [1718], libretto by John Gay and others
Touring production by Opera Theatre Company, given at Sean Hollywood Arts Centre, Newry, Co. Down, on 20 June 2009
Cast: Nicola Mulligan (Galatea), Dean Power (Acis), Gavan Ring (Polyphemus), Aoife O&#8217;Connell &#38; Christina Whyte (Nymphs) &#38; Ciaran Kelly (Swain)
Accompanied and lead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=171&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera Ireland: Season programmes for 2009-10</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/opera-ireland-season-programmes-for-2009-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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Finally, and without any fanfare (or at least none that reached me), Opera Ireland has listed its upcoming productions on the website, which may be the closest we get to an announcement till the ads come out.  Clearly they are having to be as frugal as the rest of the opera world, and if that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=159&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glasthule Opera &#8211; June 23-27</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good to be able to confirm that the Glasthule Opera season I mentioned in the last post is going ahead as planned on June 23-27, and I gather rehearsals have begun.  Taking place in the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, the season alternates between three performances of La Bohème [Puccini] on June 23, 25 &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=155&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera in the summertime&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems perverse to be thinking of summer just as we&#8217;re tentatively daring to enjoy this chilly spring, but plans for the Irish summer festivals are already appearing&#8230; and showing inevitable signs of recession fever.  While the enjoyable late winter offerings from OTC and OI had already been budgeted for, and so were safe from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&blog=2721534&post=150&subd=operapage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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