Join us for an evening of emotional operatic highs and lows with some of opera’s most ravishing arias. Conducted by Wexford Festival Opera’s guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo, who brings ‘An instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism’ (New York Times), and featuring four of opera’s extraordinary singers including the phenomenal soprano Claudia Boyle.
Boyle, mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel, tenor Eduardo Niave and baritone Giorgi Lomiseli join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, which has a vibrant, elecectic repertoire,with a programme that pays homage to this year’s Wexford Festival Opera theme of myths and legends, including Bizet’s Habanera from
Carmen, Puccini’s O mio babbino caro from
Gianni Schicchi and Verdi’s Quando le sere al placido from
Luisa Miller.