This Christmas, The National Concert Hall offers audiences the chance to create musical memories to last a lifetime with a broad range of Christmas concerts, musicals, screenings, choral classics and much more.
The National Concert Hall offers added value to customers wishing to make more of their visit with specially themed ‘Concert and Meal Deals’ on a variety of Christmas concerts this December.
For those who are simply looking for the ideal Christmas gift, The National Concert Hall offers a choice of: National Concert Hall gift cards from €20 or more, a National Concert Hall Friends membership from just €115 for the year, and membership to ‘Young Maestros’; the National Concert Hall’s music club for 3-15 year olds for just €50 per year
Highlights of the magical and festive season include:
The Irish premier of POLAR: a cinematic portrait of polar kingdoms on huge screen with live music by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Sunday 11 December 3pm/7pm. Featuring white blizzards, polar bears, humpback whales, blue oceans and vast wilderness of the Arctic and Antarctic regions… Polar is a breath taking and mesmerising cinematic experience for all the family.
Our Lady’s Choral Society together with the RTÉ Concert orchestra and Proinnsias O’Duinn perform Handel’s Messiah on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 and Friday 16 December 8pm.
The Mozart Festival Orchestra in full period costume and Mozart Festival Chorus bring Carols by Candlelight to the National Concert Hall with soprano Anna Devin performing season classics in an evocative candle-lit style setting on Sunday 18 December at 3.15pm/8pm.
The National Concert Hall presents a traditional Christmas with ‘Soilse na Nollag’ featuring a series of lunchtime and evening concerts with Ronan Browne, Roisin Elsafty, Siobhan Armstrong, Cormac Breatnach and Martin Dunlea, Ciaran Tourish and Conor Byrne from 19-23 December.
Jazz and pop standards made famous by Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald more will be performed by singer Jessie Buckley and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Thursday 22 December 8pm.
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra presents the movie screening of The Wizard of Oz. The all-time classic will be accompanied by a live performance of the orchestral score with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by Neil Thomson on Friday 23 December at 3.30pm and 7.30pm.
Festival Productions presents the classic family musical Oliver at the National Concert Hall. Directed by Vivian Coates, this sensational production of the much-loved show takes the stage from December 27th to January 3rd featuring the all-Irish cast of over 100 singers, dancers and street urchins!
On 1 January at 2.30pm and 6.30pm the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents a programme of Strauss family favourites and operatic excerpts in ‘Vienna: City of Dreams’ themed concert with mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught and conductor Marco Zambelli heralding the New Year.
The National Concert Hall offers added value to customers wishing to make more of their visit with specially themed ‘Concert and Meal Deals’ on a variety of Christmas concerts this December.
For those who are simply looking for the ideal Christmas gift, The National Concert Hall offers a choice of: National Concert Hall gift cards from €20 or more, a National Concert Hall Friends membership from just €115 for the year, and membership to ‘Young Maestros’; the National Concert Hall’s music club for 3-15 year olds for just €50 per year
Highlights of the magical and festive season include:
The Irish premier of POLAR: a cinematic portrait of polar kingdoms on huge screen with live music by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Sunday 11 December 3pm/7pm. Featuring white blizzards, polar bears, humpback whales, blue oceans and vast wilderness of the Arctic and Antarctic regions… Polar is a breath taking and mesmerising cinematic experience for all the family.
Our Lady’s Choral Society together with the RTÉ Concert orchestra and Proinnsias O’Duinn perform Handel’s Messiah on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 and Friday 16 December 8pm.
The Mozart Festival Orchestra in full period costume and Mozart Festival Chorus bring Carols by Candlelight to the National Concert Hall with soprano Anna Devin performing season classics in an evocative candle-lit style setting on Sunday 18 December at 3.15pm/8pm.
The National Concert Hall presents a traditional Christmas with ‘Soilse na Nollag’ featuring a series of lunchtime and evening concerts with Ronan Browne, Roisin Elsafty, Siobhan Armstrong, Cormac Breatnach and Martin Dunlea, Ciaran Tourish and Conor Byrne from 19-23 December.
Jazz and pop standards made famous by Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald more will be performed by singer Jessie Buckley and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Thursday 22 December 8pm.
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra presents the movie screening of The Wizard of Oz. The all-time classic will be accompanied by a live performance of the orchestral score with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by Neil Thomson on Friday 23 December at 3.30pm and 7.30pm.
Festival Productions presents the classic family musical Oliver at the National Concert Hall. Directed by Vivian Coates, this sensational production of the much-loved show takes the stage from December 27th to January 3rd featuring the all-Irish cast of over 100 singers, dancers and street urchins!
On 1 January at 2.30pm and 6.30pm the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents a programme of Strauss family favourites and operatic excerpts in ‘Vienna: City of Dreams’ themed concert with mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught and conductor Marco Zambelli heralding the New Year.
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR INCLUDE:
- TITLE: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2011/2012 Season: Vienna: City of Dreams
- DATE: Sunday 1 January 2012 2.30pm/6.30pm
- PRICE: €12, €21, €27, €33, €38 Concessions available
- Featuring soprano Tara Erraught and conductor Marco Zambelli this programme includes classical favourites and extracts from Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Strauss’s The Chocolate Soldier, and Rudolf Sieczynski Vienna, City of My Dreams.
- TITLE: Yeomen of the Guard, RTÉ Concert Orchestra
- DATE: Friday 6 January 8pm
- PRICE: €11, €22, €27, €33, €38
- The RTÉ Concert Orchestra brings you one of the best-loved of all the Gilbert & Sullivan opers, Yeomen of the Guard. Cast includes Simon Butteriss and Sarah Fox. John Wilson, conductor.
- TITLE: Finbar Wright Celebrates Little Christmas!
- DATE: Thursday 5 January 8pm
- PRICE: €32.50, €35 (Choir Balcony €20)
- Join Ireland’s best loved popular entertainer and award-winning recording artist for a glorious concert where he will be joined by an array of accomplished musicians to help celebrate Little Christmas Eve.
- TITLE: The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin, RTÉ Concert Orchestra
- DATE: Thursday 12 January 8pm
- PRICE: €11, €22, €27, €33, €38
- One of the giants of Hollywood movie music, Dimitri Tiomkin has picked up twenty two Academy Award nominations, winning four Oscars and an array of Golden Globes. He produced some of the most unforgettable film scores of our time to include: Dial M for Murder, High Noon, The Alamo and The Guns of Navarone.
- TITLE: Waltons World Masters – Ana Moura
- DATE: Thursday 19 January 8pm
- PRICE: €24, €30, €36 (Choir Balcony €16)
- Fado’s brightest young star Ana Moura brings her luxuriant voice and passionate stage presence to The National Concert Hall for an evening of evocative Portuguese blues music. Come and be captivated by a delectably sensual musical journey.
- TITLE: Johann Strauss Gala
- DATE: Sat. 28 January 3.15pm/8pm and Sun. 29 January 3.15pm
- PRICE: €35.50, €43.50, €46.50 (Choir Balcony €24.50)
- Waltz back in time with the Johann Strauss Orchestra, soprano Amy Freston and Johann Strauss Dancers in glorious costumes of the period.
- TITLE: Stephen Triffit performs Sinatra’s Live at the Sands Concert
- DATE: Saturday 21 January 8pm
- PRICE: €34.50, €39.50 (Choir Balcony €25)
- Stephen Triffitt, one of the greatest Sinatra impersonators, brings his inimitable style together with his 17-piece orchestra to The National Concert Hall to perform a show featuring all of Frank Sinatra’s biggest hits including Come Fly with Me, New York, New York and much more.
- TITLE: KODO: Japanese Drummers
- DATE: Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 February 8pm
- PRICE: €35, €45 (Choir Balcony €25)
- Under the theme ‘One Earth’, Kodo brings the sound of the taiko to all corners of the globe as their music and message resonates with myriad cultures and ways of life. Exploring the limitless possibility of the traditional Japanese drum, the taiko, Kodo is forging new directions for a vibrant living art-form.
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