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Irish National Opera: The Big Bang!

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National Concert Hall: Main StageEarlsfort Terrace, Saint Kevin's, Dublin, County Dublin, D02 N527, Ireland

Dates/times in Dublin time zone

Programme

Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)	Lohengrin: prelude to Act 3
Catalani, Alfredo (1854-1893)	La Wally: Ebben, ne andrò lontana
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957)	Die Tote Stadt: Pierrot's Lied
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)	Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah): Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)	Aida: O patria mia
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)	Orfeo ed Euridice: Addio, addio, o miei sospiri
Wallace, William Vincent (1812-1865)	Maritana: The Marriner in his Barque
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)	Romeo et Juliette: Amour, ranime mon courage
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Eugene Onegin: final scene
Giordano, Umberto (1867-1948)	Andrea Chenier: La mamma morta
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)	La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Là del ciel nell'arcano profondo
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)	La traviata: Sempre libera
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)	Falstaff: Tutto nel mondo è burla

Performers

Claudia Boyle	Soprano
Orla Boylan	Soprano
Anna Devin	Soprano
Jennifer Davis	Soprano
Máire Flavin	Soprano
Sharon Carty	Mezzo-soprano
Imelda Drumm	Mezzo-soprano
Miriam Murphy	Soprano
Gavan Ring	Baritone
Ben McAteer	Baritone
Padraic Rowan	Baritone
John Molloy	Bass-baritone
National Symphony Orchestra
Fergus Sheil	Conductor

See Lohengrin: prelude to Act 3 in

Bergen, Norway Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Big Bang: a starry launch for Irish National Opera

Pia Maltri, 10th January

The biggest stigma associated with opera in Ireland is not that it is an elitist art form, but that it is not “Irish”, and that it doesn’t belong to Irish culture, more of a recent import, like pasta, or avocado.

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