Spring Lunchtime at the Opera

Sandra Oman, soprano; Simon Morgan, baritone; with Yasmin O’Reilly, mezzo soprano; Oisín Ó’Dálaigh, tenor; David Wray, piano

Welcome to a lunchtime celebration of opera!!! An operatic gala which includes well-loved arias, duets, and ensembles from La Traviata, La Bohème, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicchi, L’Elisir d’Amore, The Tales of Hoffman, Così Fan Tutte, and The Merry Widow. Featuring established artists Sandra Oman soprano, Simon Morgan baritone, and David Wray piano, who have performed on both national and international operatic platforms, and TU Dublin Conservatoire emerging stars, who are commencing their careers at the Wexford Festival Opera and at the National Concert Hall Dublin.

Bringing opera to a lunchtime audience! Dublin-born soprano, producer and researcher, Sandra Oman, was the 2004 recipient of the Margaret Burke Sheridan Memorial Award for excellence in the field of opera. Sandra has performed extensively in opera and concert in Ireland, UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Faroe Islands, Latvia, and Poland and has interpreted over 40 operatic roles on stage. A favourite with Opera Ireland at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, she performed principal roles with them in twelve different seasons, including roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cosi Fan Tutte, La Cenerentola, Dead Man Walking and A Streetcar named Desire. She has performed in concert with both the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTE Concert Orchestra and has sung as soprano soloist with virtually all of Ireland's major choral societies. She has two Number One Albums on the iTunes Vocal Charts to her credit, entitled LIBERTY and NOËL. In 2022, she was awarded an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholarship for her PhD research studies on Giacomo Puccini. She was awarded Doctor of Philosophy from TU Dublin Conservatoire in 2025, where she also lectures.

Simon Morgan, baritone’s operatic roles include Ipparco in L’Egisto by Cavalli, Cox in Sullivan’s Cox and Box, and Belcore in L’Elisir D’Amore, at the National Concert Hall of Ireland; Marcello in La Boheme with Loughcrew Opera; Silvio in I Pagliacci with Wonderland Productions; Aeneas in the Cork Opera House Production of Dido and Aeneas. He performed as Silvio in The Everyman Palace Theatre’s production of I Pagliacci, which won the Best Opera Production Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013. He has toured Kilkenny Arts Festival, Galway, Cork, and Wicklow, as Aeneas, in Cork Opera House’s touring production of Dido and Aeneas (with the three great Cork Sopranos, Cara O Sullivan, Majella Cullagh, and Mary Hegarty).

Oisín Ó Dálaigh is a tenor based in Dublin. He was awarded a first-class honours BMus degree from TU Dublin Conservatoire, where he studied with Stephen Wallace and Aoife O’Sullivan. Oisín debuted as Goro in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Bowden Opera Festival, Manchester. For North Dublin Opera, he sang the Spirit and the Sailor in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Monostatos in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and debuted the Prince in the Irish premiere of Viardot’s Cendrillion. For Dublin City Council’s Opera in the Open, he interpreted Monsieur Volseng The Impresario, Alberto Lucia di Lammermoor and Tom Rakewell Stravinsky’s The Rakes Progress. Oisín has performed with Norfolk Opera Festival, Wide Open Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Lismore Opera Festival/Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Northern Ireland Opera, and Irish National Opera, where he is now a member of the company chorus. He recently starred in Irish National Opera’s acclaimed touring production of Emma and Mark O’Halloran’s Trade, interpreting the role of the Younger Man opposite John Molloy’s Older Man.

Yasmin O’Reilly is an Irish-Iranian Mezzo-Soprano based in Dublin, Ireland, she completed her undergraduate degree in the TU Dublin Conservatoire in 2024 and is currently working on her Master’s degree with teacher Mairead Buicke. Yasmin has placed in several Feis Ceoil competitions, winning first place with her colleagues for her portrayal of ‘Carmen’ in the Veronica Dunne Operatic ensemble competition in 2024. Due to her success in the Feis Yasmin was invited to perform a solo with the Orlando Chamber Orchestra and conductor Dr.Ite O’Donovan in the National Concert Hall as a part of Dublin Choral Foundations annual Christmas concert. In 2025 Yasmin travelled Italy twice, first to Rome with the Lassus Scholars choir where she performed the Soprano solo from Mozart's ‘Coronation Mass’ in St.Paul's Basilica with the Rome Opera Orchestra. Second to Novafeltria where she studied Bel Canto with Prof. Ubaldo Fabbri in a summer programme for aspiring opera singers concluding in a performance in the local theatre.

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