Irish National Opera 2023_2024 Season Leaflet
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<strong>Irish</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Opera</strong><br />
<strong>2023</strong>–<strong>2024</strong><br />
SEASON<br />
FINOLA MERIVALE & JODY O’NEILL<br />
OUT OF THE ORDINARY<br />
SUNDAY 13 JULY GALWAY FILM FLEADH GALWAY<br />
MONDAY 7 AUGUST BIRR VINTAGE WEEK AND ARTS FESTIVAL BIRR<br />
SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER AN TÁIN ARTS CENTRE DUNDALK<br />
FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER BALLINA <strong>2023</strong> BALLINA<br />
SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER BALLINA <strong>2023</strong> BALLINA<br />
FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER SOUTH TIPPERARY ARTS CENTRE CLONMEL<br />
MORE DATES TO BE ADDED<br />
ÉNA BRENNAN & DAVID POUNTNEY<br />
BREATHWORK<br />
THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER CUBE AT PROJECT ARTS CENTRE DUBLIN<br />
FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER CUBE AT PROJECT ARTS CENTRE DUBLIN<br />
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER CUBE AT PROJECT ARTS CENTRE DUBLIN<br />
GOUNOD<br />
FAUST<br />
SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
PUCCINI<br />
LA BOHÈME<br />
MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
BOOKING AND INFORMATION ON irishnationalopera.ie<br />
@irishnationalopera @irishnatopera @irishnationalopera<br />
Company Reg No.: 601853<br />
Registered Charity No.: 20204547<br />
STRAUSS<br />
SALOME<br />
SUNDAY 3 MARCH NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE WEXFORD<br />
CONCERT PERFORMANCE<br />
TUESDAY 12 MARCH BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
THURSDAY 14 MARCH BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
SATURDAY 16 MARCH BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
VIVALDI<br />
L’OLIMPIADE<br />
SATURDAY 20 APRIL SIAMSA TÍRE TRALEE<br />
TUESDAY 23 APRIL EVERYMAN THEATRE CORK<br />
THURSDAY 25 APRIL THEATRE ROYAL WATERFORD<br />
SATURDAY 27 APRIL LIME TREE THEATRE LIMERICK<br />
TUESDAY 30 APRIL AN GRIANÁN LETTERKENNY<br />
THURSDAY 2 MAY SOLSTICE ARTS CENTRE NAVAN<br />
SATURDAY 4 MAY PAVILION THEATRE DÚN LAOGHAIRE<br />
SUNDAY 5 MAY PAVILION THEATRE DÚN LAOGHAIRE<br />
TUESDAY 7 MAY PAVILION THEATRE DÚN LAOGHAIRE<br />
MONDAY 13 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
WEDNESDAY 15 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
FRIDAY 17 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
SUNDAY 19 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
MONDAY 20 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
FRIDAY 24 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
SATURDAY 25 MAY LINBURY THEATRE, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON<br />
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY THÉÂTRE EQUILIBRE, FRIBOURG SWITZERLAND<br />
FRIDAY 31 MAY THÉÂTRE EQUILIBRE, FRIBOURG SWITZERLAND<br />
SATURDAY 1 JUNE THÉÂTRE EQUILIBRE, FRIBOURG SWITZERLAND<br />
VERDI<br />
LA TRAVIATA<br />
FRIDAY 17 MAY NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE WEXFORD<br />
TUESDAY 21 MAY GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
THURSDAY 23 MAY GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
FRIDAY 24 MAY GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
SATURDAY 25 MAY GAIETY THEATRE DUBLIN<br />
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY CORK OPERA HOUSE CORK<br />
FRIDAY 31 MAY CORK OPERA HOUSE CORK<br />
Four young people, one an Olympic champion.<br />
Tangled relationships. Forbidden love, twice over.<br />
An unsuccessful assassination. And a royal father who<br />
has to accept his children as they are.<br />
INTERNATIONAL TOUR<br />
20 APRIL – 1 JUNE <strong>2024</strong><br />
TRALEE | CORK | WATERFORD | LIMERICK | LETTERKENNY<br />
NAVAN | DÚN LAOGHAIRE | LONDON<br />
FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND<br />
Cast Gemma Ní Bhriain · Meili Li · Alexandra Urquiola · Sarah Richmond<br />
Chuma Sijeqa · Rachel Redmond · Benjamin Russell<br />
Conductor Peter Whelan Director Daisy Evans<br />
Set & Costumes Molly O’Cathain Lighting Jake Wiltshire<br />
#INOOlimpiade<br />
CO-PRODUCTION WITH ROYAL OPERA HOUSE,<br />
LONDON AND NOUVEL OPÉRA FRIBOURG.<br />
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THÉÂTRE EQUILIBRE.<br />
Violetta, a high-spirited, popular courtesan. Alfredo, her<br />
devoted but naive lover. The rural bliss they choose is<br />
shattered by fear of scandal. When their love reasserts itself,<br />
she is already on her deathbed. <strong>Opera</strong>’s most moving reunion.<br />
17 – 31 MAY <strong>2024</strong><br />
WEXFORD NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE<br />
DUBLIN GAIETY THEATRE<br />
CORK CORK OPERA HOUSE<br />
Cast Amanda Woodbury/Máire Flavin · Mario Chang · Brett Polegato/<br />
Anthony Clark Evans · Aebh Kelly · Madeline Judge · Patrick Hyland · Seán Boylan<br />
Brendan Collins · Graeme Danby · Ben Escorcio · Matthew Mannion · David Scott<br />
Conductors Killian Farrell/Fergus Sheil Director Olvia Fuchs<br />
Set & Costumes Katie Davenport Lighting Paul Keogan<br />
#INOTraviata<br />
IN ASSOCIATION WITH CORK OPERA<br />
HOUSE, GAIETY THEATRE AND<br />
NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE.<br />
Conductor Elaine Kelly was a<br />
member of the INO <strong>Opera</strong> Studio<br />
from 2019 to 2021. She has been<br />
INO’s resident conductor since<br />
2021, and conducted three INO<br />
performances of Mozart’s Così<br />
fan tutte in May <strong>2023</strong>. She made<br />
her New York debut in Emma<br />
O’Halloran’s double bill TRADE/<br />
Mary Motorhead, an INO/Beth<br />
Morrison Projects co-production, at<br />
New York’s PROTOTYPE festival in<br />
January <strong>2023</strong>. And she conducted<br />
the West Coast premiere of the two<br />
works for LA <strong>Opera</strong> in April <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
“Elaine Kelly is a discovery, tracing<br />
the musical lines with exactitude”<br />
wrote the Los Angeles Times.<br />
Cover image: overleaf, Paula Murrihy<br />
(Octavian) and Celine Byrne (Der Marschallin),<br />
in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, March <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
Photography: Pat Redmond<br />
<strong>2023</strong>–<strong>2024</strong>
CRITICAL ACCLAIM<br />
FOR IRISH NATIONAL<br />
OPERA<br />
“This is a disturbing and effective show – exactly<br />
the kind of radical reimagining of opera that an<br />
innovative young company should undertake.”<br />
Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph, London, on<br />
Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’s Least Like The<br />
Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy.<br />
FINOLA MERIVALE & JODY O’NEILL<br />
“For a company as young as INO – whose first<br />
production, Mozart’s Figaro, was only five years<br />
ago – this Rosenkavalier is a signal achievement<br />
to add to their international accolades for<br />
Bajazet and Least Like The Other, Searching<br />
for Rosemary Kennedy.”<br />
Hugh Canning, <strong>Opera</strong>logue.<br />
“Evidence that with INO, opera in Ireland<br />
can be for all, and can be vibrant, relevant<br />
and compelling.”<br />
Michael Dungan, <strong>Irish</strong> Times, on Brian Irvine and<br />
Netia Jones’s Least Like The Other, Searching for<br />
Rosemary Kennedy.<br />
A virtual reality community opera about winning/<br />
losing society’s battle for survival. Your in-the-moment<br />
reactions decide what ending you will see.<br />
Winner of Fedora Digital Prize 2021<br />
13 JULY <strong>2023</strong><br />
GALWAY FILM FLEADH<br />
NATIONAL TOUR WILL INCLUDE<br />
BIRR | DUNDALK | BALLINA | CLONMEL<br />
MORE DATES TO BE ADDED<br />
Cast Daire Halpin · Naomi-Louisa O’Connell<br />
Composer Finola Merivale Conductor Nil Venditti Director Jo Mangan<br />
Librettist Jody O’Neill VR Producers Virtual Reality Ireland<br />
VR Creative Producers Algorithm<br />
Voices and instrumentalists from communities across Ireland<br />
#OutOfTheOrdinary<br />
Beware! The well is poisoned. The sea is infected.<br />
Everything has been consumed. Lamentation is too late.<br />
Guilt has no positive outcome. An opera about a dystopian<br />
world affected by some form of destructive force.<br />
28, 29 & 30 SEPTEMBER <strong>2023</strong><br />
DUBLIN PROJECT ARTS CENTRE (CUBE)<br />
Cast Andrew Gavin · Michelle O’Rourke · Kelli-Ann Masterson<br />
With Pre-recorded electronics, singers, violin, cello, trumpet and trombone<br />
Composer Éna Brennan Text David Pountney Director John McIlduff<br />
Breathwork is a companion work to a larger composition Hold Your Breath by Éna<br />
Brennan and David Pountney which has been commissioned by Bregenzer Festspiele.<br />
#Breathwork<br />
AS PART OF DUBLIN THEATRE<br />
FESTIVAL AND BREGENZER<br />
FESTSPIELE.<br />
A trade with the Devil. The ageing Faust sells his soul for<br />
another lifetime in which to live and love. But the Devil<br />
always wins. Marguerite, the object of Faust’s desire,<br />
is borne to heaven. Faust’s destiny is Hell.<br />
1 – 7 OCTOBER <strong>2023</strong><br />
DUBLIN GAIETY THEATRE<br />
Cast Duke Kim · Nicholas Brownlee · Jennifer Davis · Gyula Nagy<br />
Gemma Ní Bhriain · Mark Nathan · Colette McGahon<br />
Conductor Elaine Kelly Director Jack Furness Set & Costumes Francis O’Connor<br />
Lighting Sarah Jane Shiels Choreographer David Bolger<br />
#INOFaust<br />
AS PART OF DUBLIN THEATRE<br />
FESTIVAL AND GAIETY<br />
THEATRE, DUBLIN.<br />
Puccini’s best-loved opera is touching, comic, realistic<br />
and romantic, true for any time in which deep bonds<br />
can flower in the face of adversity.<br />
20 – 26 NOVEMBER <strong>2023</strong><br />
DUBLIN BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE<br />
Cast Celine Byrne · Sarah Brady · Merūnas Vitulskis<br />
Iurii Samoilov · Gyula Nagy · John Molloy · Eddie Wade · Fearghal Curtis<br />
David Scott · Kevin Neville<br />
Conductor Sergio Alapont Director Orpha Phelan Set & Costumes Nicky Shaw<br />
Lighting Matt Haskins Choreographer Muirne Bloomer<br />
#INOBoheme<br />
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH OPÉRA ORCHESTRE<br />
NATIONAL MONTPELLIER IN ASSOCIATION WITH<br />
BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE.<br />
A royal, Succession-like power struggle. Lust and death<br />
at every turn. A king who desires his wild and wilful stepdaughter.<br />
Her erotic fascination with a condemned prophet.<br />
The result is a horrific trade. Based on Oscar Wilde’s play.<br />
3 MARCH <strong>2024</strong><br />
WEXFORD NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE<br />
CONCERT PERFORMANCE<br />
12 – 16 MARCH <strong>2024</strong><br />
DUBLIN BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE<br />
Cast Sinéad Campbell-Wallace · Vincent Wolfsteiner · Imelda Drumm<br />
Tómas Tómasson · Alex McKissick · Doreen Curran · Julian Close · Lukas Jakobski<br />
Chris Bowen · Andrew Masterson · William Pearson · Aaron O’Hare<br />
Eoghan Desmond · Wyn Pencarreg · Eoin Foran · Kevin Neville · Leanne Fitzgerald<br />
Conductor Fergus Sheil Director Bruno Ravella Set & Costumes Leslie Travers<br />
#INOSalome<br />
IN ASSOCIATION WITH BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE<br />
AND NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE.
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