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FIRST LOVE and erotic, violent, love are the stuff of the operas Iolanta and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which will be screened at The Eye for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.

February’s Classical Arts Ireland live event programme features a world-class cultural treat for local audiences exclusively at The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar. On Saturday February 8 at 6pm local audiences can take part in one of the great experiences New York has to offer, the Metropolitan Opera’s live transmission of Dvoák’s sumptuously melodic fairy-tale opera Rusalka - known throughout the world for its famous aria “Rusalka’s Song to the Moon”.

Direct from the Met in HD for your delectation: As part of its spring opera series, the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar presents Verdi’s popular masterpiece Rigoletto, live in HD direct from The Met in New York on Saturday, February 16 at 5.55pm. Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s gripping tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. In this production, inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, Piotr Beczala is the womanising Duke of Mantua, Eljko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda.

RUSSIAN SOPRANO Anna Netrebko will star in The Met’s production of Manon which will be broadcast live via satellite to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark this weekend.