Rachel Kelly sings her first Idamante this week in Mozart’s Idomeneo. Christian Curnyn conducts the Irish Chamber Orchestra in two concert performances at the Kilkenny Arts Festival on 11 and 13 August.

Rachel will reprise this role in the spring at the 2017 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and, elsewhere, sings Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) with Northern Ireland Opera and Giunone in Cavalli’s La calisto with David Bates and La nuova musica at London’s Wigmore Hall.