Name: Summer Lunchtime Concert
Start: 2023-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Concert Hall (NCH)

Organization

Conductor

John Finucane

Singer

Kelli-Ann Masterson

voice

Voice

National Concert Hall

Orchestra

National Symphony Orchestra

Soprano

Mimi

Summer Lunchtime Concert

Dublin

Ireland

National Concert Hall (NCH)

Main Auditorium

Public

Rusalka

The Devil and Kate

La Bohème

Moravské tance (Moravian Dances)

The Merry Widow

The Bat

My Fatherland

Approved

A lunchtime excursion into the sylvan, picture-postcard romance of Bohemia with essential stops en route for some mischievous flirting in Venice and pulse-quickening seduction in Paris.

John Finucane, the National Symphony Orchestra’s former Principal Clarinet, makes a welcome return, this time on the conductor’s podium.

With a ‘captivating soprano, characterised by its crisp, pure tone’ (Opera Wire), Kelli-Ann Masterson comes into her own for the seductive ‘Quando m’en Vo’’ (more familiar as Musetta’s Waltz) from Puccini’s heart-rending tale of young love, La bohème, the yearning, fragile beauty of Song to the Moon from Dvořák’s Rusalka, the exquisite, hauntingly delicacy of ‘Vilja’ from Lehár’s The Merry Widow, and the infectious coloratura brilliance of the Laughing Song from Richard Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.

Away from affairs of the heart, love of landscape and homeland lights up Janáček’s colourful, animated Moravian Dances, Smetana’s liquid ‘Vlatava’, hymning the mighty River Moldau, while the Overture to Dvořák’s The Devil and Kate takes a thrilling excursion Into the bewitching realms of fairy tale and fantasy.

English

Summer Lunchtime Concert by Dvořák, Puccini, Janáček, Lehár, Strauss II, Smetana, From (2023/2023), Conductor John Finucane, National Concert Hall (NCH), Dublin, Ireland

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