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Opera Workshop are delighted to bring the Countess with her entourage of familiar friends (and enemies) back, to the gorgeous setting of the Georgian Room at the No 1 Pery Square, Hotel, Limerick 

Ever in demand, The Countess will be visiting Friars Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co Limerick and St John’s Theatre, Listowel, Co Kerry in December, bringing a touch of Christmas to her very popular Music Salons with a fine programme of opera, operetta, song and Christmas favourites.  

Isabelle de la Rose is a charming, witty, rich and recently widowed Countess who loves to host musical evenings.  So popular were her Opera Salon’s in 2017 that she returns to the gorgeous Georgian Drawing Room of No 1. Pery Square, Limerick and you are invited. Or meet this charming lady and her entourage on tour at Friars Gate Theatre, Kilmallock and St John’s Theatre, Listowel in December for a magical Christmas evening.  

Meet the Countess’ handsome and devoted nephew, enjoy glorious singing, but watch out for unexpected and unwanted visitors as the Countess’ past threatens to catch up with her.  Tensions rise, tempers flare, love is lost and found in what promises to be a glorious evening of classic opera, well-known songs and musical highlights, including those by Puccini, Bizet and Mozart.   This is a Salon that does not go smoothly for the Countess in a romantic, nostalgic story of star-crossed lovers, feuding divas and a pushy tiger mama.

In addition, the No 1 Pery Square are offering a pre-opera 3-course special menu from €35 pp.  Dinner reservations must be booked directly with the hotel – 061  402402/ [email protected]com

TICKETS – €20.

To book tickets please contact –  [email protected]

College Players return this November with Blithe Spirit, a comedy that glistens with the wit and charm that can only be from the wonderful pen of Noël Coward.

Blithe Spirit is set in the home of novelist Charles Condomine, who, while gathering inspiration for his new book, invites the delightfully eccentric clairvoyant Madame Arcati to perform a seance.

After things go awry, Charles finds himself caught in an unexpected love triangle between his wife Ruth and his highly ‘spirited’ former wife Elvira who has returned, with disastrous and hilarious effect, from beyond the grave.

First seen in the West End in 1941, the play has created a new long-run record for non-musical British plays of 1,997 performance. The classic show also made history on Broadway in the same year.