Join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for an evening of emotional operatic highs and lows with some of opera’s most ravishing arias. Conducted by Wexford Festival Opera’s guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo, who brings ‘An instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism’ (New York Times), and featuring four of opera’s extraordinary singers including the phenomenal soprano Claudia Boyle, mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel, tenor Eduardo Niave and baritone Giorgi Lomiseli join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. In a programme that pays homage to this year’s Wexford Festival Opera theme of myths and legends, including Bizet’s Habanera from Carmen, Puccini’s O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi and Verdi’s Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller.
Presented by Wexford Festival Opera and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Recorded on Thursday 30th October at the National Concert Hall.
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Claudia Boyle, soprano
Axelle Saint-Cirel, mezzo-soprano
Eduardo Niave, tenor
Giorgi Lomiseli, baritone
Francesco Cilluffo, conductor
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 15th November, 7pm-10pm
