Classical notes

After brilliant successes last November – Rigoletto was memorable, Orfeo ed Euridice unforgettable - Opera Ireland will have to pull out all the stops for its Spring 2005 season at the Gaiety Theatre on April 2-10.

After brilliant successes last November – Rigoletto was memorable, Orfeo ed Euridice unforgettable - Opera Ireland will have to pull out all the stops for its Spring 2005 season at the Gaiety Theatre on April 2-10. Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) alternates with Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and von Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy, based on an original story by Oscar Wilde. Mozart's opera, which is full of masonic allusions, has been described as ...