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On Saturday week, April 9 at 6pm, Mayo Movie World will bring the world of opera straight to Mayo with a screen production of Gioacchino Rossini’s, Le Comte Ory at 6pm.

On Saturday May 23, Backstage Theatre, Longford plays host to one of the world’s best loved operas, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, presented by the prestigious UK Opera. 

It has been said that Rossini is the P.G. Wodehouse of opera. His characters get themselves into the most complicated scrapes and of course, mischief and mayhem ensue, while they all try to sort themselves out. Nowhere is this more evident than in his most famous opera, The Barber of Seville.