Thank You
The Festival team would like to offer a sincere thank you to everyone who attended and supported the 2019 Blackwater Valley Opera Festival. Without your continued participation the Festival would not be possible.
A special thank you also to our sponsors, funders, donors and Friends of the Festival who have once more shown their generous and ongoing support, helping us to build a successful Festival for the Blackwater Valley region.
Priority Booking for Friends of the Festival will open in early 2020. We invite you to become a member of our circle of Festival Friends. Friends of the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival join a special family, sharing advance information, priority booking and much more. Joining is easy – just click here
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2020 Festival which will run from 26th May-1 June, featuring an opera double bill Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) and I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo).
– Eamonn Carroll, Festival Director
About The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival
The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Ireland’s only summer opera festival and next June we presents our centrepiece, the annual opera at Lismore Castle, with an exciting schedule of additional musical events throughout the week.
Playing host to many of these one-off events are the Great Houses, Churches and unique locations of the glorious Blackwater Valley, offering a chance to explore this hidden gem of the Munster Region, an historic part of Ireland’s Ancient East. Patrons can also enjoy an outstanding array of dining and hospitality choices, provided by local businesses and prepared by local chefs, making the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival an experience like no other.
BVOF Artistic Director Dieter Kaegi’s Q&A on the 2019 Festival
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Operawire Review – The Sleeping Queen
Is It Time To Reassess The Operas Of William Balfe? By Alan Neilson / operawire.com Original online review link here During his lifetime the Irish composer, William Balfe, was considered to be the most important opera composer in the United Kingdom (Ireland at...
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Operawire Review: Don Pasquale
Lismore Castle Provides A Stunning Venue For Donizetti’s Masterpiece By Alan Neilson / operawire.com Original online review link here On the Blackwater river in Seat East Ireland stands the imposing castle of Lismore, home to the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival....
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Interview with Rose Greene of 4 Hands Food Studio
Although the primary attraction of our festival is music, we also invite a collection of phenomenally talented Chefs to feed our hungry guests each year. Chef Rose Greene of 4 Hands Food Studio was our guest chef for the 2019 Evening Concert Series at atmospheric...
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Bachtrack review: An Entertaining Don Pasquale to open the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival
Review for Bachtrack by Andrew Larkin 30 May 2019 Link to online review here Staging an opera outdoors in Ireland is somewhat the equivalent of playing Russian roulette with the weather. Fortunately the rain clouds that threatened during the afternoon rolled away and...
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