Classical notes: Opera’s Cinderella comes to Lismore Castle

Lismore Castle has old-style Hollywood good looks. It’s exactly the sort of place you would have expected Errol Flynn to seriously buckle his swash in pursuit of a fair maiden.

Sandra Oman will sing in Rossini’s La Cenerentola in Lismore Castle, Waterford from May 28

Flynn never did turn up in the beautiful heritage hilltop town in Co Waterford, but occasionally Fred Astaire used to arrive for a quiet vacation, only to be surrounded by a ...