Irish National Opera is one of Ireland's largest arts organisations and presents opera in Dublin, on tour across Ireland and internationally. Irish National Opera was created from a merger of the Opera Theatre Company (OTC) and Wide Open Opera in 2017 and launched in January 2018.
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Irish National Opera was officially launched on 9 January 2018 with an inaugural concert, ''The Big Bang!'' at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. A national tour of ]Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: ''The Tempest (opera), The T ...
's chamber opera ''Powder Her Face
''Powder Her Face'', Op. 14 (1995), is a chamber opera in two acts by the British composer Thomas Adès, with an English libretto by Philip Hensher. The opera is 100 minutes long. It was commissioned by the Almeida Opera, a part of London's ...
'' followed in March 2018.[Dervan, Michael (3 July 2017)]
"Arts Council announces new opera company"
''The Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It was launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is Ireland's leading n ...
''. Retrieved 9 March 2018.[Irish Times 9 Jan 201]
Irish National Opera launches with a Big Bang!
A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera
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Official website
as archived on 10 May 2010
Video: History Of Opera Ireland 1941–2010
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Brochure for the 1963 Spring Festival of Italian Opera
presented by the Dublin Grand Opera Society
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Opera companies
Arts in Dublin (city)
Musical groups established in 1985
Musical groups disestablished in 2010
Music organisations based in the Republic of Ireland
1985 establishments in Ireland
2017 establishments in Ireland
2010s in Irish music
2020s in Irish music