16/09/2026
FEIS CEOIL AT CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS, PARIS 🇮🇪🇫🇷
As Feis Ceoil celebrates its 130th year, we are delighted to continue our collaboration with Centre Culturel Irlandais, where Irish soprano Eva Maria Kavanagh and Siobhain O’Higgins will perform as part of the European Heritage Days.
A final-year Bachelor of Music Performance student at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Eva has performed at the National Concert Hall, Farmleigh House, and the Austrian and German Embassies.
A multiple Feis Ceoil prize winner, she won both the Dramatic Cup Opera Award and Gervase Elwes Vocal Final at this year’s festival. She is also a recipient of Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Bríd Phelan Emerging Talent Award and the BVOF | RIAM John Pollard Bursary. Eva has also been selected for Wexford Festival Opera’s 2026/27 Wexford Factory Programme.
Accompanied by acclaimed pianist Siobhain O’Higgins, Eva will present six short concerts featuring music by Rachmaninov, Duparc and Mascagni, alongside traditional Irish airs.
📅 Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 September
🕑 2pm, 3pm and 4pm each day
📍 Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
🎟️ Free admission, subject to availability
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Royal Irish Academy of Music RDS Wexford Festival Opera
