MEZZO SOPRANO SOLOIST

ROLE: DORABELLA

ROLE: CATHY

Role: Mercédès

PRESENTED BY Lyric Opera Productions Dublin
DIRECTED BY Vivian J. Coates
REPETITEUR Florent Mourier

SOPRANO Ava Dodd & Eimear Harper
MEZZO SOPRANO Shakira Tsindos
TENOR Jose de Eca
BARITONE Gyula Nagy

Anguish in a Tudor court, an unreconciled death, Jacobean madness, a friend assassinated, a fallen women, troubles with some newly weds, the depths of man’s evil – these are some of the themes we have for you in this unforgeable programme showcasing some extraordinary Irish and international voices.

Whether you are a long term opera lover and these works are among you favourites, or you are new to opera and just beginning your awesome journey, we cannot wait to welcome you to our special performance of opera classics.

This semi-staged concert is curated and directed by Lyric Opera’s Artistic Director Vivian J. Coates

Continuing our celebrations of our 30th Birthday in 2024, Lyric Opera Ireland presents

MOMENTS OF LOVE AND SACRIFICE

A glorious operatic concert featuring arias and extended scenes from the world’s greatest composers and best loved operas. Featuring the incredible talents of our own Irish Sopranos, Ava Dodd and Eimear Harper, they will be joined by the extraordinary Cypriot mezzo, Shakira Tsindos, the sensational Portuguese Tenor, Jose de Eca and the incredible Hungarian baritone Gyula Nagy.

In Moments of Love and Sacrifice this season we have spread our net wider to include more composers including Mozart, Korngold, Massenet, Offenbach as well as major scenes from Bellini, Puccini, Donizetti and Verdi. Extended operas scenes include Don Carlo, La Traviata, I Puritani, Werther, Le Nozze di Figaro and the rarely performed La Sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini. Some stunning arias and duets will be taken from the extraordinary Die Tote Stadt by Erich Korngold, Les Conte Hoffmann, Roberto Devereaux and Verdi’s Otello.

Stunning music with each piece staged from these celebrated composers, this will make for another special Lyric Opera evening… not to be missed!

7:30pm, Sunday 20th October 2024
National Concert Hall, Dublin

For more information and to buy tickets please visit http://lyricoperaproductions.com/

PRESENTED BY Opera Holland Park
DIRECTED BY Louise Bakker
CONDUCTED BY Michael Papadopoulos
DESIGNED BY Alyson Cummins
LIGHTING DESIGNED BY Johanne Jensen
CHOREOGRAPHED BY Merry Holden

ACIS Anthony Gregory
GALATEA Elizabeth Karani
POLYPHEMUS Chuma Sijeqa
DAMON Ruairi Bowen

Shakira will sing in the 8 Part Ensemble.

A miniature masterpiece of love, loss and transformation.

Composed in 1718 for private performance in the gardens of the Duke of Chandos’s palace, and based on an episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Handel’s tragicomic serenata is a miniature masterpiece of love, loss and transformation. Birdsong and murmuring waters weave through the music as the sea nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis celebrate their mutual love, enraging the lustful cyclops, Polyphemus. When Polyphemus attacks Acis, the shepherd is transformed into a natural spring, forever at one with the idyllic landscape and the tears of his beloved nymph.

Louise Bakker directs Opera Holland Park’s first production of a Handel opera. Former Opera Holland Park Young Artist and alumnus of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker scheme Michael Papadopoulos conducts, with Anthony Gregory and Elizabeth Karani as the lovers, Acis and Galatea. South African bass-baritone Chuma Sijeqa takes the role of Polyphemus, the cyclops driven mad by unrequited passion.

Friday 19th July 2024, 7:30pm
Wednesday 24th July, 7:30pm
Friday 26th July, 7:30pm
Wednesday 31st July, 7:30pm
Friday 2nd August, 7:30pm
Opera Holland Park, Ilchester Place, London W8 6LU

For more information and tickets visit https://operahollandpark.com/

Presented by KINGSTON CHORAL SOCIETY
Conducted by ANDREW GRIFFITHS

Dido SHAKIRA TSINDOS
Aeneas JACK HOLTON
Sopranos ROSALIND DOBSON & SHAFALI JALOTA

A Purcell Celebration

Our final concert of the year is a celebration of the stunning music of Henry Purcell. We first perform highlights of his wonderful church music, including perhaps his finest anthem, My Heart is inditing, composed for the coronation of King James II. Then we are joined by superb soloists to revel in his ground-breaking opera Dido and Aeneas, all accompanied by the authentic instruments of The Purcell Orchestra

Purcell: Anthems: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; Remember not, Lord, our offences; My heart is inditingPurcell: Dido and Aeneas

Saturday, June 22 2024 7:30 pm
St Andrew’s Church, Maple Road, Surbiton, KT6 4DS

For tickets and more information, visit http://kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk/

Presented by OPERA HOLLAND PARK & BASELESS FABRIC
Directed by JOANNA TURNER

Fiordiligi LUCY ANDERSON
Dorabella SHAKIRA TSINDOS
Ferrando PHILIP COSTOVSKI
Guglielmo JACK HOLTON
Don Alfonso ALEX JONES

As a part of the Opera Holland Park Inspire program, we bring back our reduced adaptation of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. This adaptation is based on Baseless Fabric’s reduction.

Sunday 2nd June 2024, 1:00pm
Opera Holland Park Theatre, Ilchester Place, London W8 6LU

This event is unticketed.

PRESENTED BY The Barrandov Opera

SOPRANO Marianna Hovhannisyan
MEZZO SOPRANO Shakira Tsindos
TENOR Egor Zhuravskii
BARITONE Zhou Zhengzhong
PIANIST Peter Bailey

See these exceptional artists perform your favourite arias and popular songs.

Friday 5th April 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday 6th April 2024, 6.30 p.m.
Sunday 7th April 2024, 6.30 p.m.
Kennels Farm, Barking Road, Needham Market, Suffolk  IP6 8HG

Tickets £70 including buffet supper

For tickets please contact John Dearlove on 01449 720796 or email: johndearlove@barrandov.co.uk

PRESENTED BY Hugh Lane Gallery
CURATED BY Dearbhla and Finghin Collins

MEZZO SOPRANO Shakira Tsindos
PIANIST Julia Lynch

Shakira joins pianist Julia Lynch to present a recital of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben, Grieg’s Six Songs, Op. 48 and others for Hugh Lane Gallery’s regular Sundays at Noon recital series, curated by Dearbhla and Finghin Collins.

Sunday 24th March 2024, 12pm
Hugh Lane Gallery, Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1, D01 F2X9, Ireland

Admission is free, booking required.

PRESENTED BY Lyric Opera Dublin
DIRECTED BY Vivian J. Coates
REPETITEURS Dearbhla Collins & Alex Norton

SOLOISTS
Rachel Croash
Marlena Devoe
Jose de Eca
Eimear Harper
Ami Hewitt
Gyula Nagy
Gavan Ring
Shakira Tsindos

For 30 years Lyric Opera has been producing Irish opera live on the stage of the National Concert Hall. From fully staged opera to classical concerts, and from across the opera repertoire – with an extraordinary range of incredible productions. Audiences have loved beautiful presentations of Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Tosca, La bohème, Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, Rigoletto and many more… and enjoyed performances by the very best Irish and international talent on stage in Dublin.

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lyric Opera as a host of artists from the world of classical music take to the stage in a glorious operatic concert featuring a variety of arias and scenes from the worlds favourite operas. 

This semi staged concert is directed by Lyric Opera’s Artistic Director Vivian J. Coates, and features the incredible talents of Rachel Croash, Gavan Ring, Marlena Devoe, Jose de Eca, Ami Hewitt, Eimear Harper, Gyula Nagy and Shakira Tsindos, accompanied by Dearbhla Collins and Alex Norton.

2024 is a special year for fans of Giacomo Puccini, commemorating 100 years since his death, and we pay tribute to him with extended scenes from La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica. Also featured are heart-stopping scenes from Verdi’s Rigoletto and Bellini’s Norma, and magnificent arias and duets from the pens of Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Mascagni, Monteverdi and Rossini.

Not to be missed!

Coming to you all the way from London, we'd love for you to join us for a thrilling night at the Opera. Hosted at some spectacular church venues in your very own Auckland, Whangàrei, and Wellington.

Featuring Cheviot tenor, Harry Grigg, Kàpiti baritone, Kieran Rayner, Australian-Cypriot mezzo, Shakira Tsindos, Whangàrei soprano, Sophie Sparrow, and the extraordinary pianists, Juan Kim (Whangàrei and Auckland concerts) and Bruce Greenfield (Wellington concert).

Friday 23rd February, 7:30pm
St Lukes Church, 130 Remuera Rd, Remuera, Auckland
Sunday 25th February, 3pm
Whangarei Anglican Church, 2 Kamo Road Regent, Whangarei
Friday 1st March, 7:00pm
St Andrews on the Terrace, 30 The Terrace, Wellington

For more information and tickets visit:
Auckland 23rd February https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/
Whangàrei 25th February https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/
Wellington 1st March https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/