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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

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TUESDAY LUNCHTIMES & FRIDAY EVENINGS10 JUNE – 26 JULY

National Concert Hall

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Friday evenings with theRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

summer16FRIDAY 10 JUNE 8pm

SYMPHONIC ROCK

David Arnold conductor

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 8pm

VIENNESE FAVOURITESGemma Ní Bhriain mezzo-sopranoBen Gernon conductor

FRIDAY 24 JUNE 8pm

RTÉ LYRIC FM TOP ORCHESTRAL HITS

Marty Whelan & Liz Nolanpresenters, RTÉ lyric fmGavin Maloney conductor

FRIDAY 1 JULY 8pm

MOVIE CLASSICSDave Fanning presenterDavid Arnold conductor

FRIDAY 8 JULY 8pm

OLD-TIME SING-ALONGCara O’Sullivan sopranoDavid Brophy conductor

FRIDAY 22 JULY 8pm

OPERA GALACeline Byrne soprano Alexander James Edwards tenor Andrew Mogrelia conductor

FRIDAY 15 JULY 8pm

CAMILLEO’SULLIVANDavid Arnold conductor

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Tuesday lunchtimes with theRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

summer16TUESDAY 14 JUNE 1.05pm

ROSSINI, BIZET, LEHÁRPUCCINI, MASCAGNI,BRAHMS

Fiona Murphy soprano Ben Gernon conductor

TUESDAY 21 JUNE 1.05pm

GLUCK , HANDEL, MOZART LEONCAVALLO, BIZET SAINT-SAËNS, OFFENBACH

Norah King mezzo-soprano John O’Brien conductor

TUESDAY 28 JUNE 1.05pm

WAGNER, MOZART PUCCINI, DVORÁK, DELIBES TCHAIKOVSKY, SIBELIUS

Rachel Croash soprano Gavin Maloney conductor

TUESDAY 5 JULY 1.05pm

SMETANA, BRUCH, DVORÁK

Patrick Rafter violin Gavin Maloney conductor


MOZART, BELLINI, VERDI

John Molloy baritoneDavid Brophy conductor


SCHUBERT, BIZET, DVORÁKLIADOV, TCHAIKOVSKY PUCCINI, VERDI

Jennifer Davis soprano Gavin Maloney conductor

Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm


MENDELSSOHN, BACHTCHAIKOVSKY, ROSSINI

Helena Wood violin Elaine Clark violin Andrew Mogrelia conductor

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summer EVENING CONCERTFRIDAY 10 JUNE 8pm

Symphonic Rock

Let’s Rock! Back by popular demand, orchestral arrangements of classic rock and pop hits which add brilliance and boldness, power andpassion to some of popular music’s biggest songs. From Abba’s DancingQueen and The Beatles’ Can’t Buy Me Love to Eric Clapton’s Layla,Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Queen’s anthemic Bohemian Rhapsody –not to forget Robbie Williams (Let Me Entertain You), Bonnie Tyler (TotalEclipse of the Heart) and a Steve Wonder tribute – it’s chart-topping hitsas you’ve never heard them before!

David Arnoldconductor

Tickets: €15, €23.50, €29.50, €35 (Limited concessions available: €13.50, €21.15, €26.55, €31.50)Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso 5



summer LUNCHTIME CONCERTTUESDAY 14 JUNE 1.05pm

Fiona Murphy soprano

Ben Gernon conductor


Summer time and the living is… heartfelt and heated. Spanish silliness (Rossini’sBarber of Seville) and sultriness (Bizet’s Carmen) blend with pastoral charm(Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana) and rustic thrills (Brahms’ Hungarian DanceNo. 5) to create an irresistible burst of summer colour. Soprano Fiona Murphy addsexcitement of her own in gorgeous arias full of passion by Lehár (Giuditta’s ‘MeineLippen sie küssen so heiss’) and Puccini – the seductive ‘Quando m’en vo’ (Labohème) and hauntingly beautiful ‘Un bel dì’ (Madama Butterfly).

Tickets: €12 / Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso €5 Grab & Go lunch available at the Coffee Dock

FIONA MURPHY

Live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm

ROSSINI Overture to Barber of SevilleBIZET Habanera (Carmen) BIZET Prelude, Aragonaise, Intermezzo &

Les Toreadors – Carmen Suite No. 1 LEHÁR ‘Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss’ (Giuditta) PUCCINI ‘Quando m’en vo’ (La bohème) MASCAGNI Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) PUCCINI ‘Un bel dì’ (Madama Butterfly) BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5

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Gemma Ní Bhriainmezzo-soprano

Ben Gernonconductor

Presented byPaul Herriott,RTÉ lyric fm

Viennese Favourites

Celebrate Old Vienna at its melody-filled height in the company of theStrauss family and their tuneful peers with some of the most beautifuland intoxicating music ever written. Elegant waltzes by Tchaikovsky(Sleeping Beauty), Khachaturian (Masquerade), the elder JohannStrauss (Sphärenklänge) and his legendary son (On the Beautiful BlueDanube) feature alongside thrilling polkas and marches, the frizzyfrivolity of the Die Fledermaus Overture and melting arias by Offenbach,Kálmán and Sieczynski from the ‘outstanding singing talent’ (Sunday Business Post) Gemma Ní Bhriain.

Tickets: €15, €23.50, €29.50, €35 (Limited concessions available: €13.50, €21.15, €26.55, €31.50)Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

GEMMA NÍ BHRIAIN


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Norah King mezzo-soprano

John O’Brien conductor


Love in all its many-hued forms, desirable and dangerous, comes to the fore in the thrillingantique glories of Gluck (Orfeo Overture) and Handel (Alcina’s ‘Stà nell’Ircana pietrosa tana’),the intoxicating rapture of Saint-Saëns’ ‘Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix’ (Samson and Delilah)and the seductive Seguidilla from Bizet’s Carmen courtesy of mezzo-soprano Norah King.Mozart’s dramatic Don Giovanni Overture, the melting Intermezzo from Leoncavallo’sPagliacci and Offenbach’s dizzying, delirious Overture to Orpheus in the Underworldprovide three of the most memorable hymns to romance.

NORAH KING

GLUCK Orfeo Overture HANDEL ‘Stà nell’Ircana pietrosa tana’ (Alcina) MOZART Don Giovanni OvertureSAINT-SAËNS ‘Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix’

(Samson and Delilah) LEONCAVALLO Intermezzo from PagliacciBIZET Seguidilla from CarmenBIZET Gypsy Song from CarmenOFFENBACH Orpheus in the Underworld Overture

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Gavin Maloneyconductor

Presented byMarty Whelan & Liz Nolan

RTÉ lyric fm Top Orchestral Hits

RTÉ lyric fm's Marty Whelan and Liz Nolan present an RTÉ NationalSymphony Orchestra concert featuring all-time orchestral favourites as selected by RTÉ lyric fm presenters. From Bach’s ethereal Air to Bernstein’s exuberant Candide Overture, from Mozart’s heavenlyclarinet Adagio to Ennio Morricone’s hypnotic Gabriel’s Oboe, it’s a magicalcornucopia of musical masterpieces spanning four centuries. Mahler’ssublime Adagietto (Symphony No. 5), Elgar’s breathtaking ‘Nimrod’,Barber’s heart-stopping Adagio for Strings, Copland’s thrilling Fanfarefor the Common Man add power and passion of their own. Overtures byVerdi (The Force of Destiny ) and Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro) serve up thrilling orchestral majesty complemented by Fauré’s shimmeringPavane and Massenet’s bewitching ‘Meditation’ (Thaïs).


MARTY WHELAN & LIZ NOLAN


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Rachel Croash soprano

Gavin Maloney conductor


Soprano Rachel Croash leads a programme packed with operatic and orchestralmasterpieces with arias by Mozart (the relishable ‘Estinto è Idomeneo...’), Puccini (La bohème’s heart-rending ‘Donde lieta uscì’), Tchaikovsky (Lisa’s searing aria, The Queen of Spades) and Delibes’ effervescent Les filles de Cadix. Wagner’s statelyDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg Overture, Dvorák’s exuberant Carnival Overture andthe evocative beauty of Valse triste by Sibelius provide memorable splendour, colourand poetry of their own.

RACHEL CROASH

WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

MOZART‘Estinto è Idomeneo...Tutte nel cor vi sento’(Idomeneo)

PUCCINI ‘Donde lieta uscì’ (La bohème)

DVORÁK Carnival Overture

TCHAIKOVSKY Lisa’s Aria (The Queen of Spades)

SIBELIUS Valse triste

DELIBES Les filles de Cadix

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summer EVENING CONCERTFRIDAY 1 JULY 8pm


RTÉ 2fm’s Dave Fanningpresents

MovieClassics

Following last year’s sell-out concert, the RTÉ National SymphonyOrchestra and RTÉ 2fm presenter Dave Fanning team up for anotherevening of epic movie scores including the iconic music of JohnWilliams (Star Wars), Danny Elfman (Mission Impossible) and HowardShore (Lord of the Rings). Your chance to relive some of cinema’s mostpowerful musical moments includes music from classic Westerns The Magnificent Seven, The Big Country and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and all-time greats such as Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca,Taras Bulba, North by Northwest, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Rocky,Goldfinger and Pirates of the Carribean.

Tickets: €17.50, €27.50, €34.50, €40.00(Limited concessions available: €15.75, €24.75, €31, €36)Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

DAVE FANNING

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summer LUNCHTIME CONCERTTUESDAY 5 JULY 1.05pm

Patrick Rafter violin RDS BURSARY WINNER



One of the crowning glories of the string repertoire sees RDS Bursary winner Patrick Rafter take centre stage for Bruch’s ever-popular Violin Concerto, amasterpiece of melody and emotion. Two glorious Czech favourites brim withBohemian brio: ‘Vltava’ from Smetana’s Má vlast depicting the winding course of themighty river in a bewitching love song to landscape and heritage; Dvorák’s rousingFirst Slavonic Dance surges with national pride and captivating passion and energy.

PATRICK RAFTER

SMETANA ‘Vltava’ from Má vlast

BRUCHViolin Concerto No. 1 in G minor

DVORÁK Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C

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Cara O’Sullivansoprano

David Brophyconductor

Old-TimeSing-Along

Return to the good old days when audiences were encouraged to singalong to songs that simply demanded to be sung. With ‘a voice of steeland sparkle’ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), soprano Cara O’Sullivan leads asing-along extravaganza of gems from the classics and popular music.Balfe’s romantic I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Flotow’s exquisite TheLast Rose of Summer, JC Shanahan’s lilting The Banks of My Own LovelyLee and Stephen Foster’s rapturous Beautiful Dreamer are just some ofthe highlights in an evening packed with songs for you to accompany!


CARA O’SULLIVAN

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John Molloy baritone

David Brophy conductor


A feast of familiar opera favourites as rising star John Molloy offers us a range of emotions,from Leporello’s boastful catalogue of his master’s amorous conquests to the joy of thelovelorn Rodolfo at seeing once again the scenes of his childhood in Bellini’s Sonnambula.Attila the Hun sings his anguished description of a dream warning him against his ill-fated attack on Rome, and all bass-baritones dream of singing ‘Ella giammai m’amò’,probably the most profound aria written for their voice in the entire operatic repertoire.Mozart and Verdi frame the concert with the overture to Idomeneo and the majestic andimperious triumphal march from Aida.

JOHN MOLLOY

MOZARTIdomeneo Overture

MOZART‘Madamina, il catalogo è questo’ Don Giovanni

BELLINI ‘Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni’ La Sonnambula

BELLINI Norma Overture

VERDI ‘Mentre gonfiarsi l'anima’ Atilla

VERDI ‘Ella giammai m'amò’ Don Carlo

VERDI Triumphal March from Aida







CamilleO’Sullivan

The award-winning singer and actress Camille O’Sullivan, hailed by audiences worldwide in sell-out performances in Sydney Opera House,Sydney Festival, London’s Royal Festival Hall, The Roundhouse and a show-stealing appearance on Later with Jools Holland (BBC), collaborates for thevery first time with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Songs by JacquesBrel (Ne me quitte pas) and David Bowie (Life on Mars) feature as do Galileo(Declan O’Rourke), Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney and Wings), Fix You(Coldplay), The Man that Got Away (Judy Garland) and The Long and WindingRoad (The Beatles). With a 5-star commendation, her singing has beendescribed as ‘a masterclass in living a lyric – mesmerising’ (Mail on Sunday). One night only. Don’t miss it.

Tickets: €17.50, €27.50, €34.50, €40.00(Limited concessions available: €15.75, €24.75, €31, €36)Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso 15




Helena Wood violin

Elaine Clark violin

Andrew Mogrelia conductor


Orchestra leader Helena Wood and co-leader Elaine Clark present one of the mostseductive and brilliantly written works for two violins, Bach’s Double Concerto. Scotland,Italy and Russia frame their performance with Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture (alsoknown as ‘Fingal’s Cave’), a dramatic evocation of the highland coastline. Tchaikovsky’sromantic waltz from the ballet Swan Lake leads on to the rousing overture to Rossini’sWilliam Tell, beloved by generations of television addicts as the theme tune of ‘The LoneRanger’. Ballet conductor supreme, Andrew Mogrelia, is in charge.

HELENA WOODELAINE CLARK

MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture

BACHConcerto for Two Violins

TCHAIKOVSKYWaltz from Act I, Swan Lake

ROSSINIWilliam Tell Overture






Celine Byrnesoprano

Alexander James Edwardstenor

Andrew Mogreliaconductor

Presented by Paul Herriott,RTÉ lyric fm

Opera Galawith Celine Byrne and Alexander James Edwards

Two internationally acclaimed singers – Celine Byrne, ‘a soprano of fine lyrical quality’ (OperaMagazine), and Alexander James Edwards, ‘an Italianate tenor of the first order…’ (What’s OnStage) – perform arias and duets by composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Gounod, Bizet and Dvorákfrom all-time favourite operas including La bohème, Tosca, La traviata, Rigoletto, MadamaButterfly, Rigoletto, Carmen, Rusalka and Faust. This is the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’sOpera Gala! A feast of riches awaits with showstopping and deeply affecting arias for sopranoand tenor: ‘Vissi d’arte’, ‘Si, mi chiamano Mimì’, Rusalka’s Song to the Moon and the Jewel Songalongside ‘La donna è mobile’, ‘Una furtiva lagrima’, ‘E lucevan le stelle’ and ‘Che gelida manina’.More deliciousness when the soprano and tenor voices unite for ‘Parle-moi de ma mère’ fromCarmen, ‘Vogliatemi bene’ from Madama Butterfly, ‘O soave fanciulla’ from La bohème and‘Love Unspoken’ from The Merry Widow and the orchestra treat us to orchestral favouritesfrom Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers, Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Verdi’s La traviata.

Tickets: €20, €29.50, €37.50, €45 (Limited concessions available: €18, €26.55, €33.75, €40.50)Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso


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Jennifer Davis soprano



Soprano Jennifer Davis – a ‘voice to watch’ (Irish Times) – sings some of opera’s mostenchanting arias, including the otherworldly beauty of ‘Song to the Moon’ from Dvorák’sRusalka, the impassioned Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Puccini’ssublimely moving ‘O mio babbino caro’ from Gianni Schicchi. There’s equal poetry anddrama in the luxurious orchestral overtures of Schubert’s by turns lowering and lyricalRosamunde and Verdi’s richly characterised Sicilian Vespers, together with Liadov’sdarkly mysterious and evocative The Enchanted Lake.

JENNIFER DAVIS

SCHUBERT Rosamunde Overture

BIZET ‘Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante’ from Carmen

DVORÁK ‘Song to the Moon’ from Rusalka

LIADOV The Enchanted Lake

TCHAIKOVSKY Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin

PUCCINI ‘O mio babbino caro’ from Gianni Schicchi

VERDI Sicilian Vespers Overture

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

TICKETS: €15, €23.50, €29.50, €35 (Limited concessions available: €13.50, €21.15, €26.55, €31.50)BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER, 8pm

Dance and ballet music inspire an unashamedly romantic programme with athrilling Russian flavour. Programme includes Ravel’s La valse, Tchaikovsky’sSleeping Beauty Suite, Montagues and Capulets, The Young Juliet, andDance from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 and the Prelude andMazurka from Delibes’ Coppélia. RDS Bursary winner Patrick Rafter is soloistin Sarasate’s virtuosic Carmen Fantasy.

Patrick Rafter violinGavin Maloney conductor

Celebrating DanceTICKETSF R O M

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