Upcoming Season

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:15:48 +0100

The Voices of Limerick will return to rehearsals on September 12th, for a busy first half of the season with two performances in November and a Christmas Carol recital in December. Your support would be most welcome.

If you wish to join the Voices of Limerick, please visit the contacts page for more details.

Voices of Limerick, soloists confirmed

Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:41:55 +0000

Voices are delighted to secure the services of John Hudson, Principal with the English National Opera, (ENO), His debut sparked recognition from respected critics such as the Independent’s Michael White, “The heartening thing about the cast is the debut of John Hudson, a tenor who sings Macduff with such conspicuous distinction that it becomes a major role. ENO has needed a capacious lyric/spinto tenor with a sense of theatre for a long while. Here at last he is”.

Since then he has had many roles for the ENO amongst them, Rodolpho (La Boheme), Nadir (The Pearl Fishers), Alfredo , (in Jonathan Miller’s production of La Traviata) and the Duke Rigoletto). For the WNO he has sung Alfredo and Don Jose and took part in Prince Charles’s 50th birthday celebrations at Buckingham Palace.
He has also sung for the Scottish Opera, spent three months in New Zealand with the Auckland Opera where he sang Alfredo and performed the title roles in Ernani and I Due Foscari for the Nationale Reisopera, Holland. Concert performances abroad include Ottawa, Paris, Florence, Frankfurt and Dublin; and in Great Britain venues including the Barbican Theatre in London and Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. John has also appeared on various BBC 3 recordings and was a guest on BBC2’s ‘Viva La Diva!’ with Lesley Garrett, also featuring on her CD, Lesley Garrett.
Recent London bookings have been Cavaradossi (Tosca) at the Royal Albert Hall and the title role in Andrea Chenier at Opera Holland Park. Future plans include a return to ENO for Radames (Aida) and Don Jose at RAH.

Also joining Voices is the Irish Operatic Soprano,Mairead Buicke. Currently she is a Company Principal with the English National Opera and a member of their Young Singers Programme. A graduate of the Royal Irish Academy with a First-class honours degree in Performance. In 2004 she was a special prize winner in the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna as well as winning the Gervase Elwes Cup at Dublin's Feis Ceoil.
Buicke's performances as the soprano soloist with Ireland's RTE National Symphony Orchestra include Mahler's Symphony No. 8, and No. 4, as well as RTÉ's eight part television series, "Mozart Sessions". She also sang Mimì in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's concert performance of La Boheme (2005) and Gretel in their concert performance of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (2007). Her other operatic performances have included the title role in William Vincent Wallace's opera Maritana, and both Pacquette in Leonard Bernstein's Candide (2008) and First Lady in The Magic Flute (2007) for the English National Opera.

Voices of Limerick in Concert, 2011

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:57:53 +0100

Rehearsals are well underway for our own concert in the University of limerick Concert hall, on February 12th, 2011. All are very excited about this in which Voices will sing some beautiful operatic and choral works. The choir will be accompanied by the renowned and much loved Phillip Thomas.
There will a guest soprano and tenor on the evening.

Concert in aid of Console

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:51:08 +0100

On Sunday, November 28th, Console, responding to the needs of those bereaved through suicide within the community in a variety of ways, are presenting a concert in the Augustinian Church, O'Connell Street, Limerick. The choir will be taking part at this event together with well known artists. The concert commences at 4pm.

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Upcoming Season

Voices of Limerick, soloists confirmed

Voices of Limerick in Concert, 2011

Concert in aid of Console