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The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, continues with Verdi’s La Traviata, starring soprano Nadine Sierra as one of opera’s ultimate heroines, the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta, on Saturday 5 November at 4:55pm when the opera will be screened across The Eye Cinema, Palas and Omniplex Salthill.

JOHN WILLIAMS, composer of some of the most memorable, iconic, and much loved film scores in all cinema history, will be celebrated in Galway with a concert marking his 90th birthday.

WHEN GIANLUCA Margheri steps onto the stage of the Town Hall Theatre to perform the title role in Vivaldi’s opera Bajazet, it will be a double debut for the acclaimed opera singer.

THE MUSIC Of Charles Villiers Stanford is “dramatically significant, as well as beautiful in itself. It has, moreover, that quality so rare among modern composers – style.”

One of the most intriguing pieces of theatrical memorabilia in Galway is the poster for two plays, Douglas and All the World’s a Stage, to be performed at Richard Martin’s theatre, Kirwan’s Lane, on Friday August 8 1783. The playbill shows the cast with included Martin himself, his wife Eliza (Elizabeth Vessey) and Theobald Wolfe Tone, who would become Ireland’s famous revolutionary, associated with the French inspired 1798 rebellion.

On Sunday, October 31, at 2am the clocks go back so brace yourself, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting darker, longer and, of course, much colder. A combination that makes us sleepy, and moody and perpetually ready for bed.

GILGAMESH, THE story of the ancient hero-king from the Middle East, and brilliantly reimagined by Macnas, will be screened as a short film in the Town Hall Theatre next week.

“MY BRILLIANT friend traces where I should end and where I should begin, and he touches me with all the need and the want that goes on between us.”

With Christmas Eve only a day away, the last minute shopping has begun. Christmas Eve celebrations are made easy with the wide range of delicious foods available at your local Joyce’s Supermarket. All Joyce’s Supermarkets will open until 7pm on Christmas Eve and reopen on St Stephen's Day for all your last minute shopping needs.

‘Dearest beloved - It is such a beautiful morning that you ought to be here and we should be walking in the garden …and if we were, what more should we do where the bushes hid us?’ These intimate words were written by the British politician, later prime minister, Ramsey MacDonald, to Lady Margaret Sackville whose initials are on the famous autograph tree at Coole.