Only a handful of tickets remain for the Sunday night performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Lismore Castle, as Blackwater Valley Opera Festival prepares to welcome audiences from 27 May to 2 June. With just weeks to go, tickets from just €20 (limited concession availability) are also selling fast for Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on Tuesday 27 May and Thursday 29 May. This candlelit opera at St Carthage’s Cathedral features Irish mezzo soprano Paula Murrihy in the dual role of Dido and the Sorceress,