Cork Opera House (tel: (021) 427 4308; website:
www.corkoperahouse.ie) is the only purpose-built opera house in Ireland and the main music venue in Cork. The auditorium has 1,000 seats, and the orchestra pit can hold 70 musicians. A wide variety of performances can be experienced here - opera, dance, drama, musicals, family entertainment and classical music concerts. The
Everyman Palace (tel: (021) 450 1673; website:
www.everymanpalace.com) is a beautiful
Victorian theater housed in a listed building steeped in atmosphere and character. Its program is an eclectic mix of plays, operas, musicals and concerts.
Granary (tel: (021) 490 4275; website:
www.granary.ie) has a more experimental program combining work in theater, performance, dance, live art, installation and music, as well as talks, workshops and artists’ presentations.
There are dance performances in the
Firkin Crane, the building that formerly housed Cork’s butter market and is now the home of the
Institute for Choreography and Dance (tel: (021) 450 7487; website:
www.instchordance.com).
Cinemas in Cork include the
Gate Multiplex (tel: (021) 427 9595; website:
www.corkcinemas.com) on North Main Street; the
Omniplex Cork (tel: (021) 435 8711; website:
www.omniplex.ie) at Mahon Point; and the
Kino Arthouse Cinema (tel: (021) 427 1571; website:
www.kinocinema.net) on Washington Street.
Listings of events in Cork city are published by the monthly
Whaz On? (website:
www.whazon.com/cork) magazine.
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