Bang on St. Patrick’s Day, Irish National Opera (INO) has launched its Covid project, Twenty Shots of Opera. That’s about the same quantity of AstraZeneca vaccine Angela Merkel has so far managed to inject into the arms of the German population. Shots has been rushed from the backstage labs of INO in Dublin to a European audience courtesy of Nurse Eurovision Opera, jabbed into ears and eyeballs via a laptop encounter, no appointment needed, and in record time. Grab yours here until 13th September while free shots last. After that, you have to go private.
The success of the International Opera Awards is intellectual rigour
At the awards ceremony in Munich this year, a jury dug deep into the purpose of opera and its impact on society.
