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For the centenary of the death of Dublin composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Music for Galway’s artistic director and pianist Finghin Collins has arranged a celebration.

A superb, original modern-day operatic comedy which has found universal popularity, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre next month.

Coming to Leisureland on Monday May 29 at 8pm, Mozart's Così fan tutte is one of the composer’s best-loved operas. Audiences are thrilled by the fabulous score, hilarous plot-twists and of course, healthy doses of love, lies and deceit.

TRUE LOVE HURTS - Irish National Opera presents Jules Massenet’s Werther Nationwide tour coming to Town Hall Theatre, Galway – Thursday 27 May 2023

The Irish National Opera returns to the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday April 27 with an unmissable romantic opera Werther, Massenet’s masterly and nuanced portrayal of hopeless love.

The first musical production by a Galway Musical Society in the 20th century was ‘The Messiah’ performed by the Galway Orchestral Society in 1902 and we know, they also performed in the Court Theatre in 1903. In 1907, the Technical Choral Society was formed under the baton of Clement Leaper, headmaster of the Technical School. In 1924, Miss Mai Fogarty produced ‘The Bohemian Girl’ and later ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ but after that there was no notable musical society until the 1950’s.

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.

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.

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.