The ESB "Great" Christmas Concert

Address
The National Concert Hall
Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin

About

A spell-binding Christmas Concert for all the family! Be part of it and sing all your favourite carols under the magic baton of Ite O’Donovan with the Lassus Scholars.

Start the Christmas Season with this popular family event, suitable for children young and old! Rousing choral classics; famous operatic arias; amazing instrumental solos and favourite Christmas carols with audience participation! An occasion not to be missed!

The Lassus Scholars
Piccolo Lasso
The Orlando Chamber Orchestra (Leader: Gillian Williams)
Ite O’Donovan (conductor)
Featuring ESB Feis Ceoil Prize Winners 2015 Cian Flynn (clarinet – former member of Piccolo Lasso) and Caoime Glavin (French horn)
Special Guest Soloist: Imelda Drumm, Mezzo-soprano.

Choruses will include:
Jauchzet, frohlocket – from Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (J. S. Bach);
Zadok the Priest – Coronation Anthem HWV 258 (G. F. Handel)
Operatic arias
Ave Maria - from Cavalleria rusticana (P. Mascagni)
Che faro senza Euridice - from Orfeo et Euridice (C. W. von Gluck)
O don Fatale - from Don Carlo (G. Verdi)
Dopo Notte - from Ariodante (G. F. Handel)
Concerto movements played by ESB Feis Ceoil Prize-winners 2105 Cian Flynn (clarinet – former member of Piccolo Lasso) and Caoime Glavin (French horn);
O Holy Night (A. Adams)
Audience carols and a singalong ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah

Presented by Dublin Choral Foundation