Arts Opportunity… OPEN CALL: SOUND & PORTRAITS 14 Sep The Waterford Gallery of Art (WGOA) and Waterford Arts Office are seeking proposals from musicians and sound artists to create new audio artworks to be performed as part of the…
music… WATERFORD MUSIC PRESENTS SHARON CARTY (MEZZO-SOPRANO) & UNA HUNT (PIANO) **VENUE CHANGE** 16 Feb16 Feb WATERFORD MUSIC presents Sharon Carty (mezzo-soprano) & Una Hunt (piano) Christ Church Cathedral, 17th February 2022 at 7:30pm Pianist Úna Hunt teams up with Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty to take a less…
Arts Council… SEE THE SKYDANCE FIREWORKS FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOUSE! 20 Dec22 Dec The organisers of the Winter Firedance have announced that you will be able to observe the Fireworks from the comfort of your own home. Working with a specialist Dublin Company…
Choir… DR. ERIC SWEENEY R.I.P. 23 Jul13 Aug The composer and former head of Music at the Waterford Institute of Technology, Dr. Eric Sweeney, has passed away he was 72. A member of Aosdána he also served on…
Art… ARTS PRACTICE GRANT APPLICATIONS CLOSED 29 Sep7 Oct Arts Practice Grant applications are now closed. 07/10/2019 Waterford City & County Council are inviting applications for Arts projects for 2020 . This year the Arts Practice Grants application…
General… OPERA – VAGABONES 10 Sep10 Sep Theatre Royal, Friday 13th September at 8 p.m. & tickets: €21/€19 conc. Based on Emma Donoghue’s stage adaptation of her 1996 radio play Trespasses, the opera with a libretto by…
General… VICTORIA – NORTHERN BALLET 2019 11 Jun7 Jun Odeon Cinema, Tuesday 25th June at 7 p.m. [120 mins] Passion, tragedy, fierce devotion. Queen Victoria’s diaries revealed a life so fascinating that her daughter Beatrice tried to rewrite history.…
General… BLACKWATER VALLEY OPERA FESTIVAL 2019 27 May4 Jun Lismore Castle, Tuesday 28th May - Monday 3rd June at 6:00 p.m. The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival is celebrating it's 10th Anniversary this year. The festival will host opera in…
Film… MET OPERA – DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES 26 Apr23 Apr Odeon Cinema, Saturday 11th May at 5:00 p.m. [running time 209 minutes]. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Poulenc’s masterpiece. As the French Revolution begins, shy Blanche, sung by…
General… ROH: FAUST (LIVE) 23 Apr23 Apr Odeon Cinema, Tuesday 30th April at 6:45 p.m. [running time 200 minutes]. There are many versions of the story of Faust, who trades his soul with the Devil for youth and…
Film… ODEON OPERA – ROH: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (LIVE) 2019 1 Apr1 Apr Odeon Cinema, Poleberry Link Road. Tuesday 2nd April 6.15 p.m. [200 minutes]. Leonora falls in love with Don Alvaro, but when her father forbids their marriage, a fatal accident triggers…
General… ODEON EVENT CINEMA: MUSIC – DIE WALKURE 20 Mar15 Mar Odeon Cinema, Saturday 30th March @ 4.00 p.m. Featuring some of the most glorious music ever written - including the Ride of the Valkyries Die Walkure is the second of the…
Film… LA FILLE DU REGIMENT 2019 – OPERA AT THE ODEON 22 Feb4 Mar Odeon Cinema, Waterford. 2nd March @ 5.55 p.m. Full of wit and invention, Donizetti's comic opera is a delight. Bel canto stars Pretty Yende & Javier Camarena take on the…
General… UPCOMING THIS FEBRUARY @ THEATRE ROYAL 18 Jan Theatre Royal, February 2019 Tenors Un Limited 15 Year Anniversary Tour at Theatre Royal Waterford Thursday February 7th at 7:30pm The number one selling operatic trio Tenors Un Limited, the…
Art… TÁ IARRATAIS AR OSCAILT ANOIS LE hAGHAIDH DEONTAIS CHLEACHTADH NA nEALAÍON AGUS IONAID EALAÍON 2019 31 May28 Sep Deontais Ealaíon Chomhairle Cathrach & Contae Phort Láirge Spriocam: Dé Luain, an 1 Deireadh Fómhair – 4pm. Tá maoiniúchán suntasach leithroinnte ag Comhairle Cathrach & Contae Phort Láirge chun Deontais…
Festival… BLACKWATER VALLEY OPERA FESTIVAL 11 May11 May Lismore Castle and The Blackwater Valley, May 29th to June 3rd 2018 Download your copy of the festival event guide here. Formerly The Lismore Opera Festival, The Blackwater Valley Opera…
Art… APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2019 ARTS PRACTICE & VENUE GRANTS 1 May1 Oct Deontais Ealaíon Chomhairle Cathrach & Contae Phort Láirge Waterford City & County Council Arts Grants Deadline: Monday October 1st - 4pm. Waterford City & County Council has allocated significant funding…
Art… EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS – LISMORE CASTLE ARTS 31 May30 May Michael Hanna: Short Films about Learning St Carthage Hall, Chapel street, Lismore– launch Saturday 3 June at 4pm. All welcome. In spring 2015 Belfast Exposed commissioned a programme of archive-themed…
General… BARITONE GAVAN RING TO PERFORM AT CITY HALL 21 Feb City Hall, Waterford, Thursday March 2nd @ 7:30pm International Star Baritone Gavan Ring to perform at City Hall International opera star, Gavan Ring will be the guest of Waterford-Music on March…
Arts Office Projects… FURTHER INFORMATION FOR PLAYWRIGHT & PRODUCER TEAM GRANT (THEATRE) 1 Jan28 Jan Further information and Terms & Conditions All works must be unproduced and unfettered from publishing rights or previous agreements and must be the work of the applicant(s). Preference will be…
Arts Council… IMAGINE FESTIVAL – NEW OPERA ‘THE GREEN ONE’ 28 Oct1 Nov Christ Church Cathedral Friday 28th to Sunday 30th October 8pm as part of the Imagine Festival. Two sisters, each one a goddess, love the same mortal boy. He chooses one,…
Arts Council… THE GREEN ONE TASTER AT GROW HQ 20 Oct Grow HQ, Sunday 23rd October @ 12pm(Noon) In anticipation of the premiere of The Green One, a new opera by composer Eric Sweeney and poet Mark Roper during the Imagine Arts…
Arts Office Projects… FRIDAY 16TH EVENTS 6 Sep17 Sep Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. Taking place on Friday 16th September 2016 special and unique events are specifically programmed at…
events… A BUSY SEASON FOR THE THEATRE ROYAL 13 Feb16 Mar This Spring the Theatre Royal, Waterford, has one of its busiest seasons yet with a star studded line up that includes everything from Magicians to the theatre's own magic with the…
Opera… A VIENNESE STRAUSS GALA 2 Feb Theatre Royal Tuesday 9th February at 8pm Now in its 15th year this wonderful production is cleverly staged and choreographed, and authentically costumed, and will appeal to the romantic as…
Opera… METROPOLITAN OPERA’S TURANDO LIVE AT ODEON WATERFORD 22 Jan Saturday, 30th January at 6.00pm Puccini's final opera, Turandot, which is one of the most spectacular productions in the Metropolitan Opera’s repertory, returns to Irish screens on Saturday, January 30…
Film… ALBAN BERG’S ‘LULU’ LIVE FROM THE MET OPERA 13 Nov Screened Live at ODEON Waterford on Saturday, 21st November at 5.30pm Lulu is opera’s femme fatale - a sexually irresistible woman who destroys the lives of everyone around her. Visual…
Film… 10TH ANNIVERSAIRY SEASON OF LIVE OPERA BROADCASTS SCREENED AT ODEON WATERFORD 19 Sep19 Sep Direct from the Metropolitan Opera in New York The ODEON Waterford presents ‘Live in HD’, the anniversary season of ten operas live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, which…
