We promised you a new venue for opening night and we're going to deliver on that promise - The Magic Flute will be the first opera to perform at The Lir

Booking information remains the same and we will be contacting all existing ticket-holders individually. However, if you have any concerns, please contact us here in the office on (01) 679 4962.

Due to unavoidable technical issues, we must move from the originally scheduled venue, Smock Alley. The Lir, Ireland's National Academy of Dramatic Art, is a new building and instant landmark, with its black brick & green bubbles, on the top of Pearse Street, with all the restaurants, public transport, parking and amenities of Grand Canal Dock on its doorstep.

Brenda Hurley leads Opera Theatre Company’s chamber ensemble, with orchestral reduction by award winning composer Cameron Sinclair. Sung in English, translation by Duncan Robertson, The Magic Flute is directed by Annilese Miskimmon. Design is by Nicky Shaw with lighting design by Sinead McKenna with film projections by Bob Gallagher.

Cast includes: Allison Bell (Queen of the Night), Adrian Dwyer (Tamino), Owen Gilhooly (Papageno), Emma Morwood (Pamina), Matthew Trevino (Sarastro), Mary O’Sullivan (Papagena & First Lady), Lawrence Thackeray (Monostatos), Joan O’Malley (Second Lady) Eoin Hynes (YAA), Nathan Morrison (YAA), and Mihaela Loredana Chirvase (Third Lady).

For national tour booking details (Tallaght, Thurles, Tralee, Galway, Bray, Drogheda, TCD, Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Navan, Blanchardstown, Kilkenny, Downpatrick, Letterkenny and Carlow), click here. 

2011 is a landmark year for Opera Theatre Company, marking a quarter of a century at the helm of touring opera in Ireland, traveling the length and breadth of the country. OTC gratefully acknowledges the Arts Council of Ireland for their continued commitment and to Culture Ireland for their support of our international ventures. OTC is also deeply appreciative of the support and commitment of all patrons and friends.

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Our recent launch for The Magic Flute took place in

Renowned for their cocktails, the cocktail maestros at KOH created a unique cocktail for us - The Magic Flute - a mix of vodka, muddled strawberries, fresh mint and rosewater, this delicious concoction is available for the run of The Magic Flute at the special price of  €6.

Click here to view national tour dates for The Magic Flute in a form that both pleases and teases: indeed, leaves you wanting more, just like the cocktail of the same name!

The audience response to our recent benefit Great Irish Voices was beyond enthusiastic.

Here is Irish Times' reviewer Martin Adam's reaction to this "impeccably conceived concert".

For those who are curious after-the-fact, the programme for this event is available here.

Opera Theatre Company would like to thank Ann Murray, Virginia Kerr, Mairéad Buicke, Owen Gilhooly, Ross Scanlon, Emma Nash, Ben Russell and Nathan Morrison, who gave not only of their time but also of their best, and accompanist David Gowland - "whose quietly consummate musicianship brought perfect characterisation to everything the event offered".

Thank you also to the Church of Ireland chaplaincy at Trinity College, Brenda Hurley, O'Callaghan Hotels and our fellow front-of-house volunteers for the evening from the Dublin Simon Community.

With many thanks to all those who are giving of their time this evening:

Prologue I Pagliacci Leoncavallo                                           Owen Gilhooly

La ci darem Don Giovanni Mozart                 Emma Nash & Benjamin Russell

Tu che di gel Turandot Puccini                                            Mairéad Buicke

Come Paride L’elisir d’amore Donizetti                              Nathan Morrison

Ah guarda sorella Così fan tutte Mozart             Ann Murray & Virginia Kerr

Il mio tesoro Don Giovanni Mozart                                           Ross Scanlon

Sull’aria Le nozze di Figaro Mozart                     Ann Murray & Virginia Kerr

Donde lieta usci La bohème Puccini                                    Mairéad Buicke

Speravo di trovarvi… La bohème Puccini   Mairéad Buicke & Owen Gilhooly

Interval

Non piu andrai Le nozze di Figaro Mozart                           Nathan Morrison

Song to the Moon Rusalka Dvořák                                           Virginia Kerr

Vainement, ma bien-aimée… Le Roi d'Ys Lalo                         Ross Scanlon

Wiegenlied Brahms                                                                  Ann Murray

Je marche sur tous les chemins Manon Massenet                     Emma Nash

Se vuol ballare Le nozze di Figaro  Mozart                       Benjamin Russell

Duets Op. 61                      Brahms                    Ann Murray & Virginia Kerr

-       Die Schwestern

-       Klosterfräulein

-       Phänomen

-       Die Boten der Liebe           

Largo al factotum Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini                 Owen Gilhooly

Brindisi… Libiamo La traviata Verdi                                   

Advance book here or on 670 8326 | Tickets may be available on the door.                     

It is not always that popular and critical opinion agree, but the response to The Diary of Anne Frank on its recent tour to Belfast, Leuven and Paris was universally warm, with audiences declaring the production superb and the impact emotionally moving, both in the realisation of the terrible situation in which Anne found herself and in the optimism and hope that continues to come through her words.

Nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera when on its debut national tour of Ireland (an Irish and UK premiere), this piece had already received an incredible response from audiences here at home.

Here are two of the longer reviews of this piece, which together comment on all aspects of the opera, from the composition through to performance.

Opera Journal on FilmJournal.net - "beautiful and powerful... long may it continue to run"

Terry Blaine on Opera Britannia -"pretty much everything you'd hope for in festival programming"

You may wish to view our film interview with composer Grigory Frid.

Enquiries about receiving this production to your venue or festival may be directed to Kirsty Harris, CEO.