Tackling Wagner in Ireland

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Mar 21, 2025 · 46m

Recorded March 11th, 2025. A lecture by Fergus Sheil (Founding Artistic Director of Irish National Opera) for the Music Composition Centre Talks. Fergus is the founding artistic director of Irish National Opera. He has conducted a wide-ranging repertoire of over 50 different operas in performance, recordings and on film. Highlights include Strauss’ Salome, Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, Rossini’s William Tell and La Cenerentola, Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’s Least Like The Other, Verdi’s Aida, La traviata and Rigoletto as well as Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Before founding Irish National…