Brian Mulligan Baritone
Feilimidh Nunan Violin (Minardi)
Paula O’Reilly Choreographer
Thérèse / La Navarraise
Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze
Cristina, regina di Svezia
Brian Mulligan appears regularly with the world’s leading opera companies and orchestras. Brian begins the 2013–2014 season with a debut at the Wexford Opera Festival in a double bill of the Massenet operas Thérèse and La Navarraise. He continues his season singing Prospero in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest for his debut at Oper Frankfurt, and then Yeletsky in a new Robert Carsen production of Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame for his debut with the Opernhaus Zürich. Past performances include Valentin in Faust at The Metropolitan Opera, the title role in Nixon in China at San Francisco Opera and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera and Canadian Opera Company. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Brian Mulligan is a recent 1st Place winner of the International Belvedere Vocal Competition in Vienna. He holds dual citizenship with the United States and Ireland.
Feilimidh Nunan was born in Dublin and spent his early childhood in Wexford. He studied the violin in the Brussels Conservatory of Music.
Originally from Co Kildare Paula trained in Sallynoggin College of Further Education on the Dance Performance Course and at Coláiste Dhulaigh on the Theatre Studies Course. Founding member and works creator of awardwinning company ponydance (www.ponydance.com) (winners BANKSA Best Dance Adelaide Fringe 2012), Paula has toured nationally and internationally for the last six years performing in some of the world’s major arts festivals in Ireland, England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.
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He lives and works in Dublin. As an orchestral musician he has enjoyed a long working relationship with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera, and he has worked with all the principal orchestras in Ireland, including the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Saint Cecilia, Lyric Opera and Irish Film Orchestra. As well as devoting part of his time to teaching, Feilimidh takes an active interest in other types of music. He has played in a jazz group for several years and now sings with the successful award-winning chamber choir, New Dublin Voices. He gained some acting experience when he appeared as a doctor in the second run of the RTÉ television production, The Clinic.
Paula first joined Wexford Festival Opera in 2008 as a dancer in Snegurochka. In 2011 she made her choreographic debut into opera at Wexford for La Cour de Célimène. Last year she was the choreographer for Le Roi malgré lui, A Village Romeo and Juliet, and The Magic Flute. Paula has choreographed for and worked with Fluxus Dance Company, The Performance Corporation, Siamse Tíre, THISISPOPBABY, The Rubberbandits and The Dublin Super Cup event in the Aviva Stadium.
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