After bringing Vivaldi’s Bajazet to the Royal Opera House last year, Irish National Opera returns with Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy. This opera by composer Brian Irvine and director Netia Jones, which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2019, focuses on the life of Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of John F. Kennedy and eldest daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Perceived by her ambitious family as...

Philip Glass, who is recognised as one of the leading proponents of minimalism in the world today, has written over twenty-five operas, a total achieved by hardly any composer since the days of Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. His 1991 work Orphée is the final addition to English National Opera’s current season of operas exploring the Orpheus myth, and is based on Jean Cocteau’s eponymous film of 1950. It is, in the words of the production’s director Netia Jones,...