IRISH NATIONAL OPERA 2018 PROGRAMME

Irish National Opera 2018 programme

Irish National Opera 04

Welcome

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powder her face

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the marriage of figaro

16 Orfeo ed Euridice 20 The Second Violinist 24

The tales of hoffmann

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bluebeard’s castle

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Artistic partners

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2018 artists

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about Irish national opera

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founders circle

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ino performance diary

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INO team 01

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Irish national opera principal funder

Irish national opera co-producers & partners

Irish national opera partner orchestras

Irish national opera additional support

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Welcome to irish national opera Opera is an artform that plays directly with our feelings.

There is nothing quite like the raw power of a soaring human voice heard in the flesh. The emotional rush is unique, born of special vocal colours, fragility and flamboyance. Opera is also a live communal experience that marries its potent vocal charge with the alchemy of stage magic and the glory of orchestral sound.

Opera is always being re-interpreted. It has to be.

Composers push the genre forward, bending the weight of operatic tradition to their will. Mozart and Verdi, whose operas The Marriage of Figaro and Aida are pillars of Irish National Opera’s inaugural season, were amongst the greatest innovators of their time. Directors will always seek out new paths to reveal the boundless slants on the human condition offered by the great works of the repertoire.

Today’s innovators deal very directly with hot issues of our own time. The 1995 opera Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, which we tour in February, poignantly explores the unravelling of the life of a notorious English 04

socialite, the Duchess of Argyll, whose affairs became fodder for one of the great tabloid sex scandal of the 1960s. The Second Violinist, by composer Donnacha Dennehy to a libretto by Enda Walsh, is a shocking 2017 examination of how a lonely individual, ever closing inwards on himself, can suddenly explode with devastating consequences.

The birth of Irish National Opera finds Ireland in an enviable position. Our operatic output is very light by international standards, but we have a remarkable pool of creative talent, singers and composers who have been wowing audiences from New York to Los Angeles, London, Milan and Salzburg. It is an ideal moment for us to start bringing those artists back in numbers so that they can impress audiences in their own country.

And since Irish National Opera comes out of the merging of two existing companies, Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera, we have their combined experience to build on, whether working in regional venues, on Ireland’s largest stages, or proudly taking our work on the international circuit.

Our ambitions for Irish opera are shared by our funder The Arts Council. We are deeply grateful for their support as we plan for an exciting future.

On with the show!

Fergus Sheil Artistic director

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A New Course for Irish Opera My first encounter with Irish opera occurred on the pages of Joyce’s Dubliners – “His liking for Mozart’s music brought him sometimes to an opera” – which seems apposite now as our first new production is Mozart’s quintessential The Marriage of Figaro and as Opera Theatre Company’s final production was Dubliners. But although Joyce’s oeuvre is a cornucopia of operatic references, opera is one of those artforms which has never quite been allowed to develop to its full potential in Ireland.

I moved to Dublin from Switzerland in 2001 and have spent my time here working in various capacities in the cultural sector. I have hard-won, first-hand experience of how Irish arts organisations manage to navigate Ireland’s cultural funding model. The history of opera in Ireland is marked by the achievements of entities large and small. Over the last half century or so, companies have sprung up in many parts of Ireland and Dublin has been the centre with the most persistent pursuit of the operatic grail through the work of Opera Ireland, Lyric Opera Productions, Opera Collective Ireland and others 06

as well as the work of our predecessors Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera. Festivals in Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Cork and beyond have in recent years embraced and championed operatic repertoire and Wexford Festival Opera has a reputation that spans the world. All of these ventures have made lasting contributions to the heritage of opera in Ireland. Without those companies’ work the challenges facing our new enterprise, Irish National Opera, would be all the greater.

Opera is an essential but expensive artform, the nearest manifestation of Gesamtkunstwerk we can ever hope to achieve. We are therefore particularly grateful that the Arts Council is now addressing the real needs of opera.

Without the commitment of the council’s current Chair, Sheila Pratschke, Director Orlaith McBride, Arts Director Liz Meaney and Head of Music Niall Doyle, not to mention the members of the council itself, we would not be here today to begin our new adventure.

The international successes of our singers, creative opera practitioners and, increasingly, our composers, suggest that the second decade of the 21st century is the perfect time to put opera in Ireland on a new and exciting developmental course. Our thanks go out to everyone and anyone who has helped form the creative ecology and circumstances in which a new Irish National Opera company can thrive as never before. The moment is now.

Diego Fasciati Executive Director

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photo credit: Mary Plazas in Powder Her Face. Photo: Pat Redmond

Thomas Adès

Powder Her Face Sung in English with English surtitles

“ this astonishing, precocious masterpiece” The New York Times

HHHHH The Telegraph

HHHHH The Times

a Co-production with NI Opera

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Thomas Adès

A sex-crazed Duchess is trailed by the perpetual whiff of scandal. Her high-society world of perfume and furs is brought low through a sensational divorce case that delivers the world’s most notoriously explicit aria. Four singers in 16 roles and 15 musicians swarm through the styleshifting musical world of Thomas Adès. “ I wrote the sounds of the eras into each scene – so that the pre-war scene would have a Palm Court acoustic, the sound of teatime at the Waldorf, say, with the noise of spoons quietly hitting a hundred teacups; and the Fifties scene the acoustic of a Paul Anka pop record, in a diner, with those pizzicati and congas and the pop of the needle on the ‘45’ in a jukebox; and the Seventies scene would have a transistor-radio noise”.

Thomas Adès

“ Daire Halpin and Adrian Dwyer are both pitchperfect… Stephen Richardson delivers a tour de force… Mary Plazas …a truly great piece of operatic acting… [she] makes moral and emotional sense of the entire opera” The Telegraph

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Powder Her Face

PERFORMANCES

CAST Duchess

Mary Plazas

Maid / Confidante / Waitress / Mistress / Rubbernecker / Society Journalist

Daire Halpin

Electrician / Lounge Lizard / Waiter / Rubbernecker / Delivery Boy

Adrian Dwyer

Hotel Manager / Duke / Laundryman / Other Guest / Judge

Stephen Richardson

Saturday 24 February 2018 Wexford National Opera House Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 nationaloperahouse.ie 053 912 2144 Tuesday 27 February 2018 Kilkenny Watergate Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 watergatetheatre.com 056 776 1674 Thursday 1 March 2018

Creative team Conductor

Timothy Redmond

Navan Solstice Arts Centre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 solsticeartscentre.ie 046 909 2300

Director & Designer

Antony McDonald

Lighting Designer

Fabiana Piccioli

Saturday 3 March 2018

Movement Director

Lucy Burge

Sligo Hawk’s Well Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 hawkswell.com 071 916 1518

Irish National Opera Orchestra

Tuesday 6 March 2018 Wednesday 7 March 2018 Dublin O’Reilly Theatre Time: 7.30pm Tickets: €38/35 nch.ie 01 417 0000 Friday 9 March 2018

Please note: this production is suitable for over 16s only.

Tralee Siamsa Tíre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 siamsatire.com 066 712 3055

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photo credit: Tara Erraught. Photo: Kip Carroll

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Marriage of Figaro Sung in Italian with English surtitles

“ There’s a heart in every beat, and vice versa, and never does Mozart give up on humanity” Frederica von Stade, mezzo soprano

In partnership with Irish Chamber Orchestra

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sharp comedy. Sublime music. A story of social and sexual power in the sultry setting of a wealthy Spanish household. “ It’s perfectly lovely; breaking from one beauty into another, & so romantic as well as witty – the perfection of music, & vindication of opera”.

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 1917

“ There are no winners or losers in Figaro, only slightly bewildered people who cope with the game of life...I turn the pages of any Mozart score and marvel. This genius defined the human condition in his music and we bravely try to squeeze his universe into the theatre”.

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, opera director

“ A display of pinpoint perfection… if you haven’t heard Erraught… you’re missing out on an essential experience of 21st-century Ireland” The Irish Times

“ From the moment she walks on to a stage Suzanne Murphy holds Dublin audiences in a strange thrall…Ms Murphy is more than just a singer, she is an extraordinarily gifted singing actress” The Irish Times

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The Marriage of Figaro

CAST

PERFORMANCES

Figaro Jonathan Lemalu Susanna Tara Erraught Count Ben McAteer Countess Máire Flavin Cherubino Aoife Miskelly Marcellina Suzanne Murphy Basilio Adrian Thompson Bartolo Graeme Danby Curzio Andrew Gavin Antonio John Molloy Barbarina Amy Ní Fhearraigh Bridesmaids Catherine Donnelly

Dominica Williams

Friday 13 April 2018 Wexford National Opera House Time: 8pm Tickets: €15/32/36/40/48/49/80 nationaloperahouse.ie 053 912 2144 Tuesday 17 April 2018 Wednesday 18 April 2018 Friday 20 April 2018 Saturday 21 April 2018 Dublin Gaiety Theatre Time: 7.30pm Tickets: €15/36/51/66/86 gaietytheatre.ie 0818 719 388

Creative team Conductor Peter Whelan Director Patrick Mason Set & Costume Designer Francis O’Connor Lighting Designer Paul Keogan Choreographer Muirne Bloomer Irish National Opera Chorus Irish Chamber Orchestra

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Photo credit: Sharon Carthy. Photo: Liam Murphy

Christoph Willibald von GLUCK

Orfeo ed Euridice Sung in Italian with English surtitles

“ There is no musical rule that I have not willingly sacrificed to dramatic effect” Christoph Willibald von Gluck

IN ASSOCIATION with GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL A Co-production with United Fall In partnership with Irish Baroque Orchestra

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Christoph Willibald von GLUCK

The great musical myth. Orpheus rescues his wife Euridice from the Underworld. A revolutionary new mix of words, singing and dancing. And Gluck’s creative pursuit of beautiful simplicity and dramatic truth. “ I read and re-read Gluck’s scores. I copied them and learnt them by heart. I went without sleep because of them and forgot to eat or drink. An ecstasy possessed me”.

Hector Berlioz composer

“ The reason Orfeo or anyone else starts the journey is Love.

It is the only power which can bring us safely through”.

Janet Baker mezzo soprano

“ This is the moment a star is born, I told myself as I sat breathlessly through mezzosoprano Sharon Carty’s sublime rendering of the aria Scherza Infida” the Sunday Business Post

“ Sarah Power used her bright, personable soprano with unfailing taste and technical ease – supremely so in her mesmeric Act 3 aria… a fitting climax to the whole performance” Opera Magazine

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Orfeo ed Euridice

CAST Orfeo Euridice Amore

PERFORMANCES Sharon Carty Sarah Power Emma Nash

Creative team Conductor Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer

Peter Whelan Emma Martin Sabine Dargent Catherine Fay Stephen Dodd

Monday 23 July 2018 Wednesday 25 July 2018 Thursday 26 July 2018 Saturday 28 July 2018 Sunday 29 July 2018 Galway Town Hall Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/40 available from 29 January 2018 giaf.ie & tht.ie 091 569 777

Irish National Opera Chorus Irish Baroque Orchestra

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Photo Credit: Aaron Monaghan in The Second Violinist. Photo: Pat Redmond

Donnacha Dennehy & enda walsh

The Second Violinist Sung in ENGLISH with English surtitles

HHHHH “ exhilarating blend of opera, theatre and film… extraordinary…thrilling.”

The Guardian

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Donnacha Dennehy & enda walsh

A dazzling modern opera that tells the foreboding story of a life falling apart, The Second Violinist unfolds like an unnerving thriller driven along by a haunting and compulsive score.

Martin, an orchestral violinist, is consumed by social media platforms, morbid fantasies and violent video games. Seeking solace in the music of Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, his inner turmoil becomes ever more apparent as he searches for beauty in a dark, dark world.

“ Monaghan’s Martin is compellingly realized in a riveting physical performance. Sharon Carty as the conflicted wife Amy, Máire Flavin as her free spirited, former college lover Hannah, and Benedict Nelson as the murderous husband Matthew, are each superb” The Arts Review

“ it’s as exciting to see the vigour of the orchestra pit, particularly in the string section. There the violinists play nimbly, frantically and, refreshingly, with visible pleasure” The Irish Times

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The Second Violinist

CAST Martin Hannah Amy Matthew

performances Aaron Monaghan Máire Flavin Sharon Carty Benedict Nelson

Creative team Composer Donnacha Dennehy Writer & Director Enda Walsh Conductor Ryan McAdams Set Designer Jamie Vartan Lighting Designer Adam Silverman Video Designer Jack Phelan Sound Designers David Sheppard Helen Atkinson Costume Designer Joan O’Clery

Thursday 6 September 2018 Friday 7 September 2018 Saturday 8 September 2018 London Barbican Centre Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £16/25/35/40 barbican.org.uk +44 20 7638 8891

Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain

Irish National Opera Chorus Crash Ensemble

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Photo Credit: Claudia Boyle. Photo: Pat Redmond

Jacques Offenbach

The Tales of Hoffmann Sung in French with English surtitles

“ You really feel like you are dying by the end of the act. You feel this ecstasy while singing. You are dying, exhausted and excited.�

Anna Netrebko soprano (on singing the role of Antonia)

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Jacques Offenbach

One narrator. Drunk. The story of the women in his life. The complications of his current love and his current rival. And an evil shadow that follows him everywhere.

Offenbach was dubbed “the Mozart of the ChampsÉlysées” by Rossini. His lyrical, effervescent final opera, left unfinished at his death, with its plot of strange, outrageous loves, an ever-present evil genius, not to mention the famous Barcarolle (borrowed from an earlier work) and an aria for a wind-up mechanical doll, is a treasure-trove for an imaginative director. “ I warn others solemnly that Offenbach’s music is wicked. It is abandoned stuff: every accent in it is a snap of the fingers in the face of moral responsibility: every ripple and sparkle on its surface twits me for my teetotalism, and mocks at the early rising of which I fully intend to make a habit some day”.

George Bernard Shaw

“ Claudia Boyle… is captivating in the truest sense of the word, with her metallic, shining, controlled soprano, which she never pushes beyond being lyrical” Opernwelt

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CAST Hoffmann

Julian Hubbard

Olympia / Antonia / Claudia Boyle Giulietta / Stella Nicklausse

Gemma Ní Bhrian

Lindorf / Coppélius / John Molloy Miracle / Dappertutto Andrès / Cochenille / Andrew Gavin Franz / Pitichinaccio Crespel

Brendan Collins

The Voice

Carolyn Holt

Spalanzani

Fearghal Curtis

Schlemihl

Kevin Neville

Nathanaël

Peter O’Reilly

Hermann

Cormac Lawlor

Luther

Robert McAllister

Creative team Conductor

Andrew Synnott

Director

Tom Creed

Set & Costume Designer

Katie Davenport

Lighting Designer

Sinéad McKenna

Irish National Opera Chorus & Ensemble

The Tales of Hoffmann

performances Friday 14 September 2018 Saturday 15 September 2018

Saturday 29 September 2018

Dublin O’Reilly Theatre Time: 7.30pm Tickets: €38/35 nch.ie 01 417 0000

Kilkenny Watergate Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 watergatetheatre.com 056 776 1674

Tuesday 18 September 2018

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Dún Laoghaire Pavilion Theatre Time: 7.30pm Tickets: €38/35 paviliontheatre.ie 01 231 2929

Galway Town Hall Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 tht.ie 091 569777

Thursday 20 September 2018

Thursday 4 October 2018

Navan Solstice Arts Centre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 solsticeartscentre.ie 046 909 2300

Letterkenny An Grianán Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 angrianan.com 074 912 0777

Saturday 22 September 2018

Saturday 6 October 2018

Limerick Lime Tree Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 limetreetheatre.ie 061 953 400

Sligo Hawk’s Well Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 hawkswell.com 071 916 1518

Tuesday 25 September 2018 Cork Everyman Theatre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 everymancork.com 021 450 1673 Thursday 27 September 2018 Tralee Siamsa Tíre Time: 8pm Tickets: €30/27 siamsatire.com 066 712 3055

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Photo Credit: Paula Murrihy. Photo: Hugh O’Conor

Béla Bartók

BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Sung in HUNGARIAN with English surtitles

“ a masterpiece, a musical geyser of sixty minutes of compressed tragedy” Zoltán Kodály composer

In association with Dublin Theatre Festival In partnership with RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Béla Bartók

Bluebeard and his new wife Judith are drawn into the darkness. Once they enter his castle and the gates are closed, there is no turning back. They must both continue further, but the landscape he’s made is made of blood... “ Paula Murrihy remains relentlessly in the spotlight with eloquent expressiveness – hunting, creeping, crawling over the stage, dancing with the ensemble and singing easily and flexibly, just as is required... She embodies an almost inexhaustible range of characteristics: sexy, saucy, lascivious, seductive, cold blooded, self-centred, stubborn, strong” Opernnetz

“ Joshua Bloom, dashing and larger than life” Opera

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BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE

CAST Bluebeard Judith

PERFORMANCES Joshua Bloom Paula Murrihy

Creative team Conductor Director Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Video Designer Sound Designer

André de Ridder Enda Walsh Jamie Vartan Adam Silverman Jack Phelan Helen Atkinson

Friday 12 October 2018 saturday 13 October 2018 Sunday 14 October 2018 Dublin Gaiety Theatre Time: 7.30pm Tickets: Full information and booking on dublintheatrefestival.com from April 2018

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Photo Credit: Orla Boylan. Photo: Shane McCarthy

Giuseppe Verdi

AIDA

Sung in Italian with English surtitles

“ Orla Boylan… she is operating at full throttle‚ sailing above the stave and glorying in her power.”

The Telegraph

In association with Bord Gáis Energy Theatre In partnership with RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Giuseppe Verdi

The enslaved princess. Her love for one of her oppressors. Her father ready to wage war. A dilemma both personal and political. All set during a large-scale conflict between Ethiopia and the Egypt of the Pharaohs.

Aida is the grandest of grand operas, celebrated for its visual and vocal spectacle. At its heart it is also a story of moving private struggles. Aida, an Ethiopian princess enslaved in Egypt, is torn between her love for Radamès, Captain of the Egyptian Guard, and loyalty to her father, Amonasro.

Her solution leads to betrayal and death.

“ Gwyn Hughes Jones as Radamès sings superbly, in an all-conquering voice, with enough honey in it for any love song.

The Guardian

“ Orla Boylan… soared with fiery intensity.”

The Spectator

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AIDA

CAST Aida Radamès Amneris Amonasro Ramfis King of Egypt Messenger

PERFORMANCES Orla Boylan Gwyn Hughes Jones Imelda Drumm Ivan Inverardi Manfred Hemm Graeme Danby Conor Breen

Saturday 24 November 2018 Tuesday 27 November 2018 Thursday 29 November 2018 Saturday 1 December 2018 Dublin Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Time: 7.30pm Tickets: €15/36/51/66/86 bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 0818 719 377

Creative team Conductor Fergus Sheil Director Michael Barker-Caven Set & Costume Designer Joe Van k Lighting Designer Paul Keogan Choreographer Liz Roche Irish National Opera Chorus RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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artistic partners Irish singers are heard on opera stages in New York, London, Vienna, Milan and in countless other major opera centres. Irish artists form the core of Irish National Opera’s vision. We see our outstanding singers, directors, designers, conductors, composers and writers as our greatest asset. Developing our work through them will be key to Irish National Opera’s success in forging a unique artistic voice at home and in developing international recognition for our achievements.

Irish National Opera is proud to embrace a number of Ireland’s leading performers and bring them onboard our new enterprise as Artistic Partners. Our Artistic Partners are the singers Claudia Boyle, Celine Byrne, Sharon Carty, Tara Erraught and Gavan Ring, and the conductor Peter Whelan. They will appear in INO’s productions over the coming years, help shape our artistic planning, and fly the flag for the company both at home and abroad.

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2018 artists Helen Atkinson Michael Barker Caven Joshua Bloom Muirne Bloomer Orla Boylan Claudia Boyle Conor Breen Lucy Burge Eoghan Carrick Sharon Carty Brendan Collins Tom Creed Fearghal Curtis Graeme Danby Sabine Dargent Katie Davenport Jennifer Davis Donnacha Dennehy André de Ridder Anna Devin Stephen Dodd Catherine Donnelly Imelda Drumm Adrian Dwyer Tara Erraught Killian Farrell Catherine Fay Máire Flavin

Andrew Gavin Rachel Goode Daire Halpin Manfred Hemm Carolyn Holt Julian Hubbard Gwyn Hughes Jones Ivan Inverardi Paul Keogan Cormac Lawlor Jonathan Lemalu Emma Martin Patrick Mason Ryan McAdams Robert McAllister Ben McAteer Antony McDonald Richard McGrath Sinéad McKenna Aoife Miskelly John Molloy Aaron Monaghan Miriam Murphy Suzanne Murphy Paula Murrihy Emma Nash Benedict Nelson Kevin Neville

Gemma Ní Bhriain Amy Ní Fhearraigh Joan O’Clery Francis O’Connor Peter O’Reilly Aoife O’Sullivan Jack Phelan Fabiana Piccioli Mary Plazas Sarah Power Tim Redmond Stephen Richardson Gavan Ring Liz Roche Padraic Rowan John Shea Fergus Sheil David Sheppard Adam Silverman Andrew Synnott Adrian Thompson Daniella Urbas Joe Van k Jamie Vartan Enda Walsh Peter Whelan Dominica Williams

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2018 artists

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irish National Opera Our programme will deliver almost 12,000 days of work for creative teams, casts, chorus, orchestras, music and technical staff.

This is equivalent to over 50 full-time jobs for opera professionals.

Employment

RTÉ lyric fm’s broadcasts of INO productions will regularly bring our performances to a national audience.

Webcasts will be available on operavision.eu and other platforms.

Two CD recordings of Irish opera will be released in 2018

We have selected leading Irish performers to join us and share their unique skills as Artistic Partners – sopranos Claudia Boyle and Celine Byrne, mezzo sopranos Sharon Carty and Tara Erraught, baritone Gavan Ring and conductor Peter Whelan.

Reaching the widest audience

Artistic Partners

Stars of the future We will nurture and develop new generations of Irish opera artists.

Irish orchestras In addition to our own Irish National Opera Orchestra we will collaborate with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Crash Ensemble.

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2018 will see 38 performances of 7 different operas.

Including 3 nights in London.

Large scale works will be presented at the Gaiety and Bord Gáis Energy Theatres in Dublin, the National Opera House, Wexford, and from 2019 Cork Opera House.

Opera all year round

We cherish our own star singers, directors, designers, conductors, composers and writers.

In 2018 over 70% of our cast and creative teams are Irish.

Championing Irish talent Over half our Irish performances take place outside Dublin.

Opera around the country

The great operas – and more

Great operas are at the core of our programme.

We will also showcase the best baroque and contemporary works.

New audiences We welcome new audiences and will bring the thrill of opera into more peoples’ lives.

We will make opera accessible and available.

Ticket prices for many productions start from €15

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The Arts Council congratulates all involved in Irish National Opera and looks forward to many years of great opera productions for audiences all over Ireland.

Founders Circle Join Irish National Opera’s Founders Circle Be Part of Irish Opera History!

Founders Circle Members as of 03/01/18 Mary Brennan Audrey Conlon

We’re ambitious, bold and new. In our first year, we will present seven operas, five of them new productions, and tour to thirteen venues in Ireland as well as to London’s Barbican Centre. We will collaborate with Irish artists and opera stars who have held global audiences spellbound.

We will appear in major festivals, including the Galway International Arts Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. This is a renaissance of opera in Ireland and you can be part of our success story.

Catherine Santoro

Join the Founders Circle by making a once-off contribution of €1,000 and your name will forever be associated with the founding of Irish National Opera. We will acknowledge members of our Founders Circle in perpetuity. If you wish, you may also choose to make a Founders Circle contribution in someone else’s name(s) and, if you prefer, you can make a contribution anonymously.

YOUR NAME HERE

This is your chance to play a part in the history of Irish opera.

Maureen de Forge Michael Duggan Catherine & William Earley R. John McBratney F.X. & Pat O’Brien

Call us on (01) 679 4962 see www.irishnationalopera.ie or email diego@irishnationalopera.ie for further information.

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OPERA

COMPOSER

DATES

VENUE

Powder Her Face

Adès

sat 24 FEBRUARY

National Opera House

Powder Her Face

Adès

tues 27 February

Watergate Theatre

Powder Her Face

Adès

thur 1 March

Solstice Arts Centre

Powder Her Face

Adès

sat 3 March

Hawk’s Well Theatre

Powder Her Face

Adès

tues 6 March

O’Reilly Theatre

Powder Her Face

Adès

wed 7 March

O’Reilly Theatre

Powder Her Face

Adès

fri 9 March

Siamsa Tíre

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart

fri 13 APRIL

National Opera House

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart

tues 17 APRIL

gaiety Theatre

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart

wed 18 APRIL

gaiety Theatre

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart

fri 20 APRIL

gaiety Theatre

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart

sat 21 APRIL

gaiety Theatre

Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck

mon 23 JULY

Town Hall Theatre

Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck

wed 25 JULY

Town Hall Theatre

Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck

thur 26 JULY

Town Hall Theatre

Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck

sat 28 JULY

Town Hall Theatre

Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck

sun 29 JULY

Town Hall Theatre

The Second Violinist

Dennehy & walsh

thur 6 September

Barbican Centre

The Second Violinist

Dennehy & walsh

fri 7 September

Barbican Centre

The Second Violinist

Dennehy & walsh

sat 8 September

Barbican Centre

CITY/TOWN

TIME

TICKETS

BOOKING

Wexford

8pm

€30/27

nationaloperahouse.ie 053 912 2144

Kilkenny

8pm

€30/27

watergatetheatre.com 056 776 1674

Navan

8pm

€30/27

solsticeartscentre.ie 046 909 2300

Sligo

8pm

€30/27

hawkswell.com 071 916 1518

Dublin

7.30pm

€38/35

nch.ie 01 417 0000

Dublin

7.30pm

€38/35

nch.ie 01 417 0000

Tralee

8pm

€30/27

siamsatire.com 066 712 3055

Wexford

8pm

€15/32/36/40/48/49/80

nationaloperahouse.ie 053 912 2144

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

gaietytheatre.ie 0818 719 388

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

gaietytheatre.ie 0818 719 388

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

gaietytheatre.ie 0818 719 388

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

gaietytheatre.ie 0818 719 388

Galway

8pm

€30/40

giaf.ie & tht.ie 091 569 777

Galway

8pm

€30/40

giaf.ie & tht.ie 091 569 777

Galway

8pm

€30/40

giaf.ie & tht.ie 091 569 777

Galway

8pm

€30/40

giaf.ie & tht.ie 091 569 777

Galway

8pm

€30/40

giaf.ie & tht.ie 091 569 777

London

7.45pm

£16/25/35/40

barbican.org.uk +44 20 7638 8891

London

7.45pm

£16/25/35/40

barbican.org.uk +44 20 7638 8891

London

7.45pm

£16/25/35/40

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OPERA

COMPOSER

DATES

VENUE

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

fri 14 September

O’Reilly Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

sat 15 September

O’Reilly Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

tues 18 September

Pavilion Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

thur 20 September

Solstice Arts Centre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

sat 22 September

Lime Tree Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

tues 25 September

Everyman Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

thur 27 September

Siamsa Tíre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

sat 29 September

Watergate Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

tues 2 October

Town Hall Theatre

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

thur 4 October

An Grianán

The Tales of Hoffmann

Offenbach

sat 6 October

Hawk’s Well Theatre

Bluebeard’s Castle

Bartók

fri 12 October

Gaiety Theatre

Bluebeard’s Castle

Bartók

sat 13 October

Gaiety Theatre

Bluebeard’s Castle

Bartók

sun 14 October

Gaiety Theatre

Aida

Verdi

sat 24 November

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

Aida

Verdi

tues 27 November

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

Aida

Verdi

thur 29 November

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

Aida

Verdi

sat 1 December

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

CITY/TOWN

TIME

TICKETS

BOOKING

Dublin

7.30pm

€38/35

nch.ie 01 417 0000

Dublin

7.30pm

€38/35

nch.ie 01 417 0000

Dún Laoghaire

7.30pm

€38/35

paviliontheatre.ie 01 231 2929

Navan

8pm

€30/27

solsticeartscentre.ie 046 909 2300

LIMERICK

8pm

€30/27

limetreetheatre.ie 061 953 400

CORK

8pm

€30/27

everymancork.com 021 450 1673

Tralee

8pm

€30/27

siamsatire.com 066 712 3055

Kilkenny

8pm

€30/27

watergatetheatre.com 056 776 1674

GALWAY

8pm

€30/27

tht.ie 091 569777

Letterkenny

8pm

€30/27

angrianan.com 074 912 0777

Sligo

8pm

€30/27

hawkswell.com 071 916 1518

Dublin

7.30pm

on sale April 2018

dublintheatrefestival.com 01 677 8899

Dublin

7.30pm

on sale April 2018

dublintheatrefestival.com 01 677 8899

Dublin

7.30pm

on sale April 2018

dublintheatrefestival.com 01 677 8899

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 0818 719 377

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 0818 719 377

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 0818 719 377

Dublin

7.30pm

€15/36/51/66/86

bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 0818 719 377 47

Irish National Opera

INO team Artistic Director Fergus Sheil Executive Director Diego Fasciati Head of Production Gavin O’Sullivan Marketing Manager Sorcha Carroll

Board of Directors Gaby Smyth (Chair) Jennifer Caldwell Stella Litchfield Sara Moorhead Joseph Murphy Yvonne Shields Michael Wall

Office & Finance Manager Cate Kelliher Further executive and board recruitment will take place throughout 2018.

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