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Listen to RTE Rattlebag radio interviews with Opera A La Carte

Tailor made opera brings sweet notes to a garden

Arranging a full operatic performance can be daunting at any time with its demands of cast, clothing, sets and crew. Add to that the vagaries of travelling the world and it could be a task too difficult to contemplate, let alone handle! Nicholas Heath remains calm, however, as he plans the forthcoming visit of Opera a la Carte to Ireland in July.

Wayward Don wins the hearts of music lovers

A colourful assembly gathered in a gracious garden to witness justice being done. There were gentlemen in powdered wigs, ladies in dramatic gowns and masks, some comic, a couple sinister, others rather beautiful. And this was only the audience.

Getting Così under canvas

Opera in a tent? It's one of the attractions of a garden staging of 'Così Fan Tutte' with a Raj theme, along with some promising young singers, writes Arminta Wallace

Heath’s lusty production

Energetic ‘Tosca’