‘The focus is finding people from Ireland’: The EU’s big ask for new English translators

It will be an uphill battle, with Ireland having the lowest proportion of secondary school students who study two or more foreign languages ...

Niamh O’Sullivan on Carmen’s Habanera: ‘It’s scary. She’s straight in with the most famous aria in the opera’

The mezzo-soprano has sung Bizet’s title role in English, in Calixto Bieito’s version. Now she’s to perform the original ...