Thursday 30 October

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Opera Gala with Claudia Boyle

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Time 8:00pm
National Concert Hall Dublin

Tickets: €15-€42.50

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EVENT INFO
Also in Wexford on Oct 28 as part of Wexford Festival Opera.

RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Claudia Boyle, soprano
Axelle Saint-Cirel, mezzo-soprano
Eduardo Niave, tenor
Giorgi Lomiseli, baritone
Francesco Cilluffo, conductor

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.

Presented by Wexford Festival Opera and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

 

Programme

Ponchielli, Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
Donizetti, Vien, Leonora (La Favorita)
Verdi, Quando le sere al placido (Luisa Miller)
Bizet, Habanera (Carmen)
Charpentier, Depuis le jour (Louise)
Puccini, O Mimì, tu più non torni (La Bohème)
Offenbach, Belle nuit (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)

Delius, The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
Giordano, Nemico della patria (Andrea Chénier)
Massenet, Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Werther)
Puccini, O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Puccini, E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)
Bernstein, Glitter and Be Gay (Candide)
Puccini, Dunque è proprio finita (La Bohème)