Mozartian magic at the Gaiety

Opera Ireland (OI) opens its nine-day spring season in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, next Saturday with a lavish production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Opera Ireland (OI) opens its nine-day spring season in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, next Saturday with a lavish production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

OI, which is heavily sponsored by the Arts Council, has achieved a number of outstanding successes since the government unburdened the company of a debt of more than €1 million two years ago.

Its sell-out production last autumn of Orfeo ed Euridice won best opera production in the 2005 ...