Name: Summer Lunchtime Concert
Start: 2023-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Concert Hall (NCH)

Organization

Conductor

Gavin Maloney

Instrumentalist

Anne-Marie O’Farrell

Harp

National Concert Hall

Orchestra

RTE Concert Orchestra

Summer Lunchtime Concert

Dublin

Ireland

National Concert Hall (NCH)

Main Auditorium

Public

Ruslan and Lyudmila

In Light Anew

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Sleeping Beauty, op. 66

Approved

Fall under the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s spell in a magical hour of musical escapism inspired by fairies and folklore.  

Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Ludmilla was written after an epic fairytale-inspired poem, and its boisterous Overture makes for an exuberant curtain-raiser. In Irish folklore the harp is associated with the ancient race of fairies known as Tuatha Dé Danann. It’s fitting then, that the Irish premiere of a harp concerto by composer and harpist Anne-Marie O’Farrell is at the heart of this lunchtime programme.  

Shakespeare’s fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are drawn together by music, and we’ll hear their antics beautifully portrayed in Mendelssohn’s Overture and Nocturne, before Tchaikovsky’s Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty brings us joyfully whirling back to the wakeful present.

English

Summer Lunchtime Concert by Glinka, O’Farrell, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, P. I., Tue 22 Aug 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Gavin Maloney, National Concert Hall (NCH), Dublin, Ireland

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Venues