A Night at the Opera

UCD Symphony Orchestra
​​​​​​​UCD Philharmonic Choir
Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
Ciarán Crilly conductor
Ciara Murphy associate conductor
Sidi Bao solo violin/leader
Susie Gibbons soprano
Sarah Richmond mezzo soprano
Dean Power tenor

Operatic arias, duets, choruses, and excerpts, including:

Bizet: Habañera & Près des ramparts de Séville (Carmen)
Puccini: Un bel di vedremo & Coro a boco chiusa (Madama Butterfly), Nessun dorma (Turandot)
Verdi: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (La Traviata)
Dvořák: Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Massenet: Méditation (Thaïs)
Mascagni: Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Delibes: Flower Duet (Lakmé)
Offenbach: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (Tales of Hoffmann)
Tchaikovsky: Lensky’s Aria & Waltz (Eugene Onegin)

The UCD Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of beloved operatic highlights, featuring arias, duets, choruses, and duets by Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, and many others. The orchestra is joined by the UCD Philharmonic Choir and Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, plus acclaimed guest soloists Susie Gibbons (soprano), Sarah Richmond (mezzo soprano), and Dean Power (tenor).

Review from Hot Press, And In the End with the Bootleg Beatles at the BGET, October 2019:

“The added bonus is the UCD Symphony Orchestra conducted by the expert hand of Professor Ciarán Crilly, the artistic director of the Orchestra since its foundation. Having been fortunate enough to see them expand Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band into a breath-taking 50th anniversary celebration last year, that record brought to live in technicolour 3-D, I expected something special tonight, and I wasn’t to be disappointed.”

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