OPERA: WEXFORD OPERA LIVE ON RTÉ
Wexford Festival Opera and RTÉ once again joins forces to bring the magic of Wexford Festival Opera to audiences at home and abroad, with a trio of live opera performances to be streamed online via RTÉ Culture and broadcast via RTÉ lyric fm - it all kicks off on Tuesday, October 24th at 8pm with Zoraida di Granata by Gaetano Donizetti. Find more more here.
The magic of @wexfordopera is coming to RTÉ Culture and @RTElyricfm: pic.twitter.com/74IlbTsrg7
— Culture on RTÉ (@RTE_Culture) October 12, 2023
FILM: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Make no mistake, a new Martin Scorsese movie is an event, and this one doesn't disappoint: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone star in this epic true tale, a story of greed and genocide in 1920s Oklahoma - and Marty's first western! See it on the big screen (Cinemas nationwide)
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THEATRE: OLIVER CROMWELL IS REALLY VERY SORRY
Xnthony returns with a national tour of his acclaimed pop musical, a wickedly funny exploration of English colonialism in Ireland, which takes to the road this October and November for a national tour, kicking off with a date at Axis Ballymun on Friday, October 20th - Xnthony talks to RTÉ Culture here.
EVENT: KERRY FILM FESTIVAL
The incomparable Eileen Walsh is coming to this year's KFF to receive the Maureen O'Hara Award celebrating Irish screen talent; elsewhere you'll find a programme that celebrates the finest new Irish cinema, plus a series of choice live events that includes Little John Nee providing a live score to Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr - find out more here (Various venues, October 19th-22nd)
BOOK: DIRTY LINEN
Subtitled The Troubles in My Home Place, the remarkable first book from Irish Times Literary Editor Martin Doyle offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, the author's own. Martin introduces Dirty Linen for RTÉ Culture here (Irish Academic Press, out now)
BONUS: HACKNEY DIAMONDS
The new album from The Rolling Stones has been heralded as their finest work in over 40 years - and who are we to disagree? Sure, it's only rock 'n' roll, but we like it (Out now)
Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm - listen back here.
