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☔️The Opera Forecast The opera forecast for the Mid West will be taking a turn for the dramatic in December when Opera Workshop in association with production partners Honest Arts release the short films, ‘Songs of the Meteorologist’ by Fiona Linnane. Featuring soprano Roisin Walsh and saxophonist Markus Kraeber, these operatic weather reports will whip up…

Batten down the hatches at Shannon Rowing Club Opera Workshop is in the house. As the weather takes a turn Opera Workshop will shoot the breeze (quite literally) in and around the rooms and grounds of the iconic Shannon Rowing Club building. This weekend we are, while taking great heed of the current regulations, delighted…

No 2 Pery Square is a Research & Development project funded by The Arts Council of Ireland and supported by the Limerick City & County Council Arts Department. The cast, composer and director met in January 2020, spending a few days devising characters and researching stories connected with the Limerick Civic Trust Maintained, No 2…

We have made fast friends with the wonderful people of Hands in Harmony Deaf Community Choir. Working together over a three month period we created the musical performance ‘Signing not miming.’ With great humour, friendliness and trust, the members of Hands in Harmony devised a show that highlighted many of the issues and misconceptions faced…

Opera Workshop back on the road! Following the wonderful success of the Ensemble devised ‘The Trouble with Virtue’ which was performed at Limerick’s Hunt Museum in 2018, Opera Workshop developed a longer show, extending this fun-filled, wry and moving, one act production. We were delighted to return to Limerick’s Hunt Museum, St John’s Theatre, Listowel…

A new music making partnership between Opera Workshop, Mid-West Vocal Academy and St Mary’s Cathedral. Opera Workshop teamed up with St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick and the Mid West Vocal Academy with the aim of developing a new initiative, the Limerick Vocal Masterclass & Recital Series. The first of an intended series of recitals by guest…