Cheek to Cheek - The Life and Music of Irving Berlin

Sandra Oman soprano
Simon Morgan baritone
David Wray piano

George Gershwin called him ‘the greatest songwriter that has ever lived; Jerome Kern declared that he has ‘no place in American music – he IS American music!’ Over a career spanning sixty years, Irving Berlin composed 1,500 songs, 20 stage musicals and 15 film scores. Join soprano Sandra Oman, baritone Simon Morgan and pianist David Wray in a celebration of this twentieth-century master of the theatre and cinema. Programme includes: Cheek to Cheek; Anything you can do (I can do better); Blue Skies; It’s a Lovely Day Today; I Got Lost in his Arms; There’s no Business like Show Business; Let’s Face the Music and Dance; What’ll I Do; You can’t get a Man with a Gun; Easter Parade; Always; Alexander’s Ragtime Band; A Couple of Swells; Count Your Blessings; Happy Holiday; and of course, White Christmas!

Dublin-born soprano, producer and researcher, Sandra Oman, was the 2004 recipient of the Margaret Burke Sheridan Memorial Award for excellence in the field of opera.  Sandra has performed extensively in opera and concert in Ireland, UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Faroe Islands, Latvia, and Poland and has interpreted over 40 operatic roles on stage.   A favourite with Opera Ireland at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, she performed principal roles with them in twelve different seasons, including roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cosi Fan Tutte, La Cenerentola, Dead Man Walking and A Streetcar named Desire.  She has performed in concert with both the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTE Concert Orchestra and has sung as soprano soloist with virtually all of Ireland's major choral societies.  She has two Number One Albums on the iTunes Vocal Charts to her credit, entitled LIBERTY and NOËL. In 2022, she was awarded an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholarship for her PhD research studies on Giacomo Puccini. Simon Morgan, baritone’s operatic roles include Ipparco in L’Egisto by Cavalli, Cox in Sullivan’s Cox and Box, and Belcore in L’Elisir D’Amore, at the National Concert Hall of Ireland; Marcello in La Boheme with Loughcrew Opera; Silvio in I Pagliacci with Wonderland Productions; Aeneas in the Cork Opera House Production of Dido and Aeneas. He performed as Silvio in The Everyman Palace Theatre’s production of I Pagliacci, which won the Best Opera Production Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013. He has toured Kilkenny Arts Festival, Galway, Cork, and Wicklow, as Aeneas, in Cork Opera House’s touring production of Dido and Aeneas (with the three great Cork Sopranos, Cara O Sullivan, Majella Cullagh, and Mary Hegarty). 

Presented by Sheldon Nulty Music