News & Updates

More than 4,500 people attended Blackwater Valley Opera Festival for our most successful year yet. Our 2023 sold-out festival filled the summer air with the beautiful tones of world-class performers. Ireland's summer opera festival featured 21...

CALLOUT TO SCHOOLS! Following a successful programme in 2023, Music Generation Waterford will bring singing and opera to classrooms around the county again this year with Discover Opera and Discover Singing - innovative education initiatives in partnership with...

Waterford Whisky ~ Waterford Distillery ~ producer of the most naturally flavoursome single malt whiskies, is delighted to announce its involvement as drinks partners for one of Ireland’s leading arts festivals, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival in 2023.   The...

The 2023 festival at Lismore, Youghal, Dungarvan and Fermoy features an inspiring creative team, 103 international and Irish performers, 21 events, 12 venues, 4,500 visitors, 2,500 students, and 98 volunteers   Blackwater Valley Opera Festival (BVOF), Ireland's...

We are so proud to celebrate the results of this year’s 25th Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, for which Blackwater Valley Opera Festival were nominated across a staggering three categories. Taking place in Dublin on Sunday 26th March, we celebrated a fantastic win...

Our wonderful Local Heroes gathered last Saturday 25th March in Ballyin House & Gardens, Lismore for the annual Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Local Heroes Tea Party. There could not have been a better setting for our Afternoon Tea event than this beautiful...

Blackwater Valley Opera Festival was delighted to win Best Opera in the Waterford News & Star Green Room Awards last week, for our 2022 production of Orfeo ed Euridice. This prize adds to the production’s growing collection of awards and nominations which includes...

For the first time ever in its history, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival has been nominated in the 25th Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards across a staggering three categories (full details below).  We are thrilled to celebrate the achievements and receive...

Blackwater Valley Opera Festival is thrilled to have been shortlisted for a Tourism Award, in the prestigious Waterford Business Awards 2022 in association with Dungarvan & West Waterford Chamber of Commerce, Waterford Chamber and WLR FM for Tourism...

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and guests enjoyed a Joyce in Music recital on December 16 at the Princess Grace Irish Library in the principality of Monaco - with a superb performance by Irish artists, honouring James Joyce’s literary legacy and love of music. This...

    Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and the Royal Irish Academy of Music have announced pianist Ella Nagy and soprano Abigail LaDuke as the 2022 recipients of the transformativenew music prize to support the studies of two RIAM master’s students...

World Opera Day 2022 celebrates the birthday of George Bizet and Johann Strauss II. This year's theme is "Unboxing Opera" which refers to the millions of videos to be watched on the World Wide Web, where users unbox products in front of their camera. They are filming...

Music Generation Waterford was delighted to launch their new exhibition on October 15, 2022 in the Central Library, Lady Lane, Waterford City.   The exhibition is a collection of photos, film and music to celebrate some of what has been achieved so far at Music...

UNICEF Ireland was presented with a cheque for €7,312.85 by members of Blackwater Valley Opera Festival at Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford.     All ticket proceeds were from the BVOF Voices of Ukraine recital in Dromore Yard, at this year's Blackwater...

Gluck’s popular opera Orfeo ed Euridice was the headline event over four evenings from June 1 – 5, 2022 at Lismore Castle, the heart of the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival. It is one of the most popular works by renowned composer Gluck, first performed in Vienna in...

Relive Ireland's Summer Opera Festival with our first BVOF highlights reel for you to enjoy! Catch some of the most memorable moments from this year's epic festival - the first of our mini film productions to celebrate BVOF 2022. This year we welcomed an incredible...

Gluck's popular opera Orfeo ed Euridice was the headline event over four evenings from June 1 – 5, 2022 at Lismore Castle, the heart of the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.  It is one of the most popular works by renowned composer Gluck, first performed in...

Happy We! The Irish Baroque Orchestra were joined by soprano Nuria Rial and tenor Juan Sancho for a concert to remember at BVOF 2022. Under the artistic direction of Peter Whelan at the harpsichord, Nuria and Juan sang a selection of arias and duets in an exciting...

Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger and Friends: Music for the Opera Intermissions took place at Dromore Yard, Aglish, Co. Waterford as part of BVOF 2022, featuring three exceptionally talented, world-class musicians; Maurice Steger, Daniele Caminiti, and Mauro Valli...

For this year’s Blackwater Valley Opera Festival's opera production – Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck – we were very excited to collaborate with the magnificent, award winning Irish Baroque Orchestra conducted by Peter Whelan. The Irish Baroque...