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Local Heroes Tea Party 2023 at Ballyin House Lismore

Local Heroes Tea Party 2023 at Ballyin House Lismore

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...

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BVOF Shortlisted for Tourism Award

BVOF Shortlisted for Tourism Award

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...

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Joyce in Music Recital: BVOF PGIL Monaco 2022

Joyce in Music Recital: BVOF PGIL Monaco 2022

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...

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Summer Opera Festival raises €7,312 for UNICEF Ireland

Summer Opera Festival raises €7,312 for UNICEF Ireland

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...

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Orfeo ed Euridice – Highlights 2022

Orfeo ed Euridice – Highlights 2022

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...

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Watch the latest BVOF Highlights Reel 2022

Watch the latest BVOF Highlights Reel 2022

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...

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Orfeo ed Euridice – Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2022

Orfeo ed Euridice – Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2022

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...

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Irish Baroque Orchestra – BVOF collaboration for 2022

Irish Baroque Orchestra – BVOF collaboration for 2022

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...

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