Following on from the huge success of our 2023 Opera Chorus Development Programme and our chorus’s performances in our acclaimed production of ‘Tosca’ at the Grand Opera House Belfast, we proudly present the 2024 Northern Ireland Opera Chorus as the feature of this very special showcase.
This concert puts these accomplished opera practitioners as the centre focus of opera and allows us to perform many varied styles and periods of writing for an opera chorus. Come and enjoy well-loved favourites as well as some lesser known delights, including works by Purcell, Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, John Adams and Leonard Bernstein.
There will also be a solo performance excerpt of The Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onégin‘, performed by soprano Mary McCabe, ‘Tatyana’ in our forthcoming production of this opera at the Grand Opera House in September.
Our choristers have become one of the greatest assets for our company and through this specialised programme they have worked with industry professionals including vocal coaches, conductors, language coaches, choreographers and movement directors from highly prestigious operas house all over the UK and Europe.
For ‘CHORUS!’ the NI Opera Chorus will be working with conductor James Grossmith. This concert will also feature conductor Margaret Bridge, one of NI Opera’s Artists in Development.
Scroll down the page to click on the biographies of all the artists and creatives performing in ‘CHORUS!’
- Listen to James and Margaret talking to John Toal on BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Classical Connections’ about the concert from 1:04:25 minutes in by clicking here.
- ‘Ravishing choruses, as hypnotic as the marquee arias, inject periodic brio into the musical narrative.’ Theatre News, ‘La Traviata’
Click in the box to the right to see some images of the 'CHORUS!' concert - photo credit Neil Harrison Photography
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The Observer
‘The locally based NI Opera chorus is, post-Covid, new, recruited through open auditions earlier this year yet already able to produce the vital, full-bodied sound needed for Verdi’s beloved work.’